Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 102
Now drink of this flagon of balm that I took from the city of Jerusalem.
Who acts: you, balm · What happens: drink, take · To what, where: city
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, balm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 drink | advmod |
| 2 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flagon | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 flagon | det |
| 5 | flagon | flagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drink | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 balm | case |
| 7 | balm | balm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flagon | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 took | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 balm | acl:relcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Jerusalem | case |
| 15 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 city | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | imperative | you not said here | now | of this flagon of balm | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of flagon=Source | |||
| 2 | take | past | balm | the city of Jerusalem | I nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from city=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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