Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 3
If I have no tidings of him then I must needs perish, or go myself to seek him."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: have, need, perish, go, seek · To what, where: tidings, myself, Duke
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 (I, 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 | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 tidings | det |
| 5 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tidings | nmod |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 needs | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 needs | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 needs | aux |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 12 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 needs | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 go | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seek | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | I | no tidings of Duke | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Patient | ||||
| 2 | need | must | I | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perish not said to happen | infinitive | I not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go | imperative | you not said here | myself | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | you not said here | Duke | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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