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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 16

But you see that I am in a great strait, for if these men overtake me then shall I of a certainty be slain, and King Charles will never see me more."

Who acts: you, I, men, Charles · What happens: see, be, overtake, not see · To what, where: great strait, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. 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, men, Charles), 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

ccnsubjmarknsubjcopcasedetamodccomppunctmarkmarkdetnsubjconjobjadvmodauxnsubjcasedetnmodcopadvclpunctccnmod:descnsubjauxadvmodconjobjadvmodpunctpunctrootButCCONJyouPRONseeVERBthatSCONJIPRONamAUXinADPaDETgreatADJstraitNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJifSCONJtheseDETmenNOUNovertakeVERBmePRONthenADVshallAUXIPRONofADPaDETcertaintyNOUNbeAUXslainADJ,PUNCTandCCONJKingPROPNCharlesPROPNwillAUXneverADVseeVERBmePRONmoreADV.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_3 seecc
2youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs3 seensubj
3seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_10 straitmark
5IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs10 straitnsubj
6ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 straitcop
7ininADP_10 straitcase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 straitdet
9greatgreatADJDegree=Pos10 straitamod
10straitstraitNOUNNumber=Sing3 seeccomp
11,,PUNCT_16 overtakepunct
12forforSCONJ_16 overtakemark
13ififSCONJ_16 overtakemark
14thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem15 mendet
15menmanNOUNNumber=Plur16 overtakensubj
16overtakeovertakeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 seeconj
17meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 overtakeobj
18thenthenADVPronType=Dem25 slainadvmod
19shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin25 slainaux
20IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 slainnsubj
21ofofADP_23 certaintycase
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 certaintydet
23certaintycertaintyNOUNNumber=Sing20 Inmod
24bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf25 slaincop
25slainslainADJDegree=Pos16 overtakeadvcl
26,,PUNCT_32 seepunct
27andandCCONJ_32 seecc
28KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing29 Charlesnmod:desc
29CharlesCharlesPROPNNumber=Sing32 seensubj
30willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin32 seeaux
31neverneverADVPronType=Neg32 seeadvmod
32seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 seeconj
33meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs32 seeobj
34moremoreADVDegree=Cmp32 seeadvmod
35..PUNCT_3 seepunct
36""PUNCT_3 seepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepresentyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2ispresentIa great straittree rules
3overtake a condition, not said to happeninfinitivethis menmetree rules
4isshallIthenslain propertytree rules
5not seefutureCharles Kingmevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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