Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 12
If it be so, show the man to me."
Who acts: anger, you · What happens: be, show · To what, where: man, me
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 so | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 so | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 so | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 show | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 show | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | anger | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | imperative | you not said here | the man | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Topic to i=Recipient |
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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