Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 8
And if you cannot bear me, then take my horse and mount thereon, and lay me across the saddle, and put my sword by thy side.
Who acts: you · What happens: not bear, take, lay, put · To what, where: me, horse, saddle, sword
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 bear | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bear | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bear | advmod |
| 6 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bear | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mount | cc |
| 14 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | conj |
| 15 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lay | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | obj |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 saddle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 saddle | det |
| 22 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 put | cc |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 side | nmod:poss |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear a condition, not said to happen | can | you | me | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | my horse and mount | then | thereon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | you not said here | me | the saddle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Result | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | you not said here | my sword | by thy side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme by side=Destination |
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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