Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 86
Make ready and arm yourself, or else, by the God in whom I believe, I will smite you where you lie!"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: make, believe, smite, lie · To what, where: yourself, you
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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 arm | cc |
| 4 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ready | conj |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Make | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 else | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 else | cc |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 Make | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 God | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 God | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 God | det |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 God | nmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | nsubj |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 whom | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smite | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 smite | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 smite | aux |
| 20 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 smite | obj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 lie | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 lie | nsubj |
| 24 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 smite | advcl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | yourself | by the God; else, ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 2 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | smite | future | I | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lie | present | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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