Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 53
Now hearken to me: if you will deny your faith and declare that your God is no god, and believe in Mahomet, then I will give you my sister Floripas in marriage, than whom there is no fairer maid upon earth, and we two will conquer France or ever this year shall have passed, and I will make you King of one-half of this realm."
Who acts: you, God, I, fairer maid, we · What happens: hearken, deny, declare, be, believe, give · To what, where: me, faith, god, Mahomet, sister, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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, God, I, fairer maid), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hearken | advmod |
| 2 | hearken | hearken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hearken | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 deny | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 deny | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 deny | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 deny | aux |
| 9 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hearken | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 faith | nmod:poss |
| 11 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deny | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 declare | cc |
| 13 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 deny | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 god | mark |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 god | nmod:poss |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 god | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 god | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 god | det |
| 19 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declare | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 believe | cc |
| 22 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 deny | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Mahomet | case |
| 24 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 believe | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 give | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 give | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | aux |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 deny | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 give | iobj |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sister | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | iobj |
| 33 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sister | appos |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 marriage | case |
| 35 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 whom | punct |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 whom | case |
| 38 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 is | obj |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 is | expl |
| 40 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 deny | advcl |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 maid | det |
| 42 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 maid | amod |
| 43 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 is | nsubj |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 earth | case |
| 45 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 maid | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 conquer | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 conquer | cc |
| 48 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 conquer | nsubj |
| 49 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 we | appos |
| 50 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 conquer | aux |
| 51 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hearken | conj |
| 52 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 53 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 56 year | cc |
| 54 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 56 year | advmod |
| 55 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 56 year | det |
| 56 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 France | conj |
| 57 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 passed | aux |
| 58 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 59 passed | aux |
| 59 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 conquer | ccomp |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 make | punct |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 make | cc |
| 62 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 64 make | nsubj |
| 63 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 64 make | aux |
| 64 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hearken | conj |
| 65 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 64 make | obj |
| 66 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 make | obj |
| 67 | of | of | ADP | _ | 70 half | case |
| 68 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 70 half | nummod |
| 69 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 68 one | punct |
| 70 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 64 make | obl |
| 71 | of | of | ADP | _ | 73 realm | case |
| 72 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 73 realm | det |
| 73 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 half | nmod |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearken | punct |
| 75 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | imperative | you not said here | me | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | deny a condition, not said to happen | future | you | your faith | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | God | your god | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | believe | infinitive | you not said here | Mahomet | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | give | future | I | my sister | marriage | then | you iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sister=Theme | |
| 7 | be | present | no fairer maid upon earth | there | whom obj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme | |||
| 8 | conquer | future | we | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | pass | shall · perfect · passive | France or this year | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 10 | make | future | I | King | you | of one half of this realm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary king=Product |
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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