Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 72
He is young and presumptuous, full of pride and ambition, but so sorely wounded that he cannot fight; forbid him, therefore, to go forth."
Who acts: Lord · What happens: be, wound, not fight, forbid, go · To what, where: Lord
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 (Lord), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 young | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | cop |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 presumptuous | cc |
| 5 | presumptuous | presumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pride | case |
| 9 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ambition | cc |
| 11 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pride | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wounded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 wounded | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 wounded | advmod |
| 15 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 16 wounded | advmod |
| 16 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 fight | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fight | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fight | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 fight | advmod |
| 21 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wounded | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 forbid | punct |
| 23 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 forbid | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 therefore | punct |
| 26 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 23 forbid | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 forbid | conj |
| 30 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lord | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Lord not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | Lord not said here | of pride and ambition | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wound | past | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not fight | can | Lord | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | forbid | infinitive | Lord | therefore property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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