Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 90
Meanwhile take your choice of two things: either depart out of this country, taking nothing with you, or stand forth and fight with me.'"
Who acts: you · What happens: take, depart, stand, fight · To what, where: choice, country, nothing
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), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 2 take | advmod |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 choice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 things | nummod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 choice | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 depart | punct |
| 9 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 depart | advmod |
| 10 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 depart | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taking | punct |
| 16 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 depart | advcl |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 taking | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 taking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stand | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 stand | cc |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | parataxis |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 stand | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fight | cc |
| 25 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 stand | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 fight | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 stand | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 stand | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | your choice of two things | meanwhile property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme | |||
| 2 | depart | infinitive | you not said here | this country | either property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out country=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | you not said here | nothing | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand | infinitive | forth property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fight | infinitive | with me | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=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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