Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 27

Go you, therefore, and demand of him my son Fierabras, and bid him do homage for his kingdom, or I will come with one hundred thousand men, and constrain him."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, bid, do, come, constrain, demand · To what, where: you, demand, homage

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. 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), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Fierabras	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Fierabras	cc
7	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Fierabras	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 demand	nmod
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Fierabras	compound
12	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bid	cc
15	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bid	obj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bid	xcomp
18	homage	homage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 kingdom	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 kingdom	nmod:poss
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 men	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hundred	compound
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 thousand	compound
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 men	nummod
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 constrain	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 constrain	cc
34	constrain	constrain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 constrain	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	you	son Fierabras demand of demand obl; therefore property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
2	bid	infinitive	you not said here	demand		tree rules
3	do	infinitive	you not said here	homage	for demand's kingdom	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality
4	come	future	I		with thousand men	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	constrain	infinitive	you not said here	demand		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Patient
6	demand			demand		nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 27