Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 8
Nay, and if you will send out against me six or seven of your strongest knights, I swear by my god Mahomet that I will not refuse to fight with them all.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: send out, swear, not refuse, fight · To what, where: six, god Mahomet
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, I), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 send | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 send | cc |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 send | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 send | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | aux |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 send | compound:prt |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 send | obl |
| 11 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 swear | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 seven | cc |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 six | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 knights | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 knights | nmod:poss |
| 16 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 knights | amod |
| 17 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seven | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swear | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 swear | nsubj |
| 20 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Mahomet | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Mahomet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Mahomet | compound |
| 24 | Mahomet | mahomet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swear | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 refuse | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 refuse | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 refuse | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 refuse | advmod |
| 29 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Mahomet | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 fight | mark |
| 31 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 refuse | xcomp |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fight | obl |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | future | you | against me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swear | present | I | six | by my god Mahomet | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not refuse | future | I | my god Mahomet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | with Oliver | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent |
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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