Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 15
Nevertheless as you are a courteous knight, I will require you once again to forsake Mahomet and your false gods, and submit yourself to be baptized.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, require, forsake, submit, baptize · To what, where: courteous knight, you, Mahomet, yourself
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 7 knight | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 knight | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 knight | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 6 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knight | amod |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 require | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knight | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 require | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 require | aux |
| 11 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 require | obj |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 again | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 require | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 forsake | mark |
| 16 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 require | advcl |
| 17 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 forsake | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gods | cc |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 gods | nmod:poss |
| 20 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gods | amod |
| 21 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Mahomet | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 submit | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 submit | cc |
| 24 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 require | conj |
| 25 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 submit | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 baptized | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 baptized | aux:pass |
| 28 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 submit | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 require | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a courteous knight | nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | require | future | I | you | again | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Precondition | |||
| 3 | forsake | to-infinitive | I not said here | Mahomet and your false gods | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | submit | infinitive | I not said here | yourself | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | baptize | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» |
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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