Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 89
Now may Mahomet send his curse upon me if I do not straightway tell your father, the lord Admiral."
Who acts: Mahomet, I · What happens: send, tell, curse · To what, where: curse, father · 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 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 (Mahomet, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 send | advmod |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 3 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 send | nsubj |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 curse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | obl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 straightway | advmod |
| 13 | straightway | straightway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tell | advcl |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 send | advcl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Admiral | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Admiral | det |
| 19 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Admiral | compound |
| 20 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | may | Mahomet | Mahomet's curse | now | upon me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Theme | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | your father and the lord Admiral | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | curse | Mahomet | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=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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