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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 see | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 strait | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 strait | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 strait | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 strait | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 strait | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 strait | amod |
| 10 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overtake | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 overtake | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 overtake | mark |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 overtake | nsubj |
| 16 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 overtake | obj |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 slain | advmod |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 slain | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 slain | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 certainty | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 certainty | det |
| 23 | certainty | certainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 I | nmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 slain | cop |
| 25 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 overtake | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 see | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 see | advmod |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 see | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | a great strait | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | overtake a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | this men | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | then | slain property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not see | future | Charles King | me | vn 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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