Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 71
Give us arms in our hands, and set us where we may fight with these Saracens.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: give, set, fight · To what, where: arms, us, hands
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 (you, we), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 fight | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fight | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fight | aux |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Saracens | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 Saracens | det |
| 17 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fight | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | arms | us | our hands | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient arm=Theme | ||
| 2 | set | infinitive | you not said here | us | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient we=Result | ||||
| 3 | fight | may | we | with this Saracens | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with saracen=Co-Agent |
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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