Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 58
But now take up your sword; for without it you can have no more strength in battle than a woman." "
Who acts: you · What happens: take up, have · To what, where: sword, more strength, battle
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), 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 | _ | 3 take | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 take | advmod |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 take | compound:prt |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 strength | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 strength | amod |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 battle | case |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strength | nmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 woman | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 battle | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | imperative | you not said here | your sword | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | can | you | no more strength | battle than a woman | for earth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
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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