Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 55
I pray you, therefore, that you give me this day the thing I shall desire of you."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: pray, give, desire · To what, where: you, thing, me
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 pray | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 pray | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pray | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 desire | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 desire | aux |
| 17 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thing | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 desire | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | I | you | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | present | you | the thing | me | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 3 | desire | shall | I | the thing not said here | of you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
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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