Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 68
See, I have one of your swords; you must take good care lest it be your destruction."
Who acts: you, I, care · What happens: see, have, take, be · To what, where: one, good care · 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, I, care), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 swords | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 swords | nmod:poss |
| 8 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 See | conj |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 care | amod |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 19 destruction | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 destruction | nsubj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 destruction | cop |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 19 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | one of your swords | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | must | you | good care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | care | lest your destruction; your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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