Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 9
But if you will not send out any man, then I will assuredly assail your camp before nightfall this very day, and strike off your head, and lead away Roland and Oliver as prisoners.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not send out, assail, strike off, lead away · To what, where: man, camp, head, Roland
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 assail | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 send | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 send | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 send | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 send | advmod |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 assail | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 send | compound:prt |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 send | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 send | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 assail | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 assail | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 assail | aux |
| 14 | assuredly | assuredly | ADV | _ | 15 assail | advmod |
| 15 | assail | assail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 camp | nmod:poss |
| 17 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assail | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 nightfall | case |
| 19 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assail | obl |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 day | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 day | advmod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assail | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 strike | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 strike | cc |
| 25 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 assail | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 strike | compound:prt |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strike | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lead | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lead | cc |
| 31 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 assail | conj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 lead | advmod |
| 33 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 lead | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Oliver | cc |
| 35 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Roland | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 prisoners | case |
| 37 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lead | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 assail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not send out a condition, not said to happen | future | you | any man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assail | future | I | your camp | before nightfall; then; day | assuredly property | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Patient | ||
| 3 | strike off | infinitive | I not said here | your head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lead away | infinitive | I not said here | Roland and Oliver | as prisoners; away property | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent roland=Duration as prisoner=Attribute |
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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