Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 5
And if he refuse to do these things, then tell him that I will most surely hang him as a thief."
Who acts: King, you, I · What happens: refuse, not do, tell, hang · To what, where: things, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tell | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 refuse | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refuse | xcomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 hang | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hang | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hang | aux |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 surely | advmod |
| 17 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 18 hang | advmod |
| 18 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hang | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 thief | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thief | det |
| 22 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hang | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | present | King | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | King not said here | this things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | King | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | hang | future | I | King | as a thief; surely property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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