Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 11
Also he commands you to set free certain knights of his whom you hold in prison; which things if you fail to do forthwith he will cause you to be hanged by the neck till you die."
Who acts: Duke, you, neck · What happens: command, set, hold, fail, cause, hange · To what, where: you, free certain knights, prison · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, you, neck), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 3 commands | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commands | nsubj |
| 3 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 commands | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commands | xcomp |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knights | amod |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knights | amod |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 whom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 knights | nmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hold | nsubj |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 prison | case |
| 16 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 things | punct |
| 18 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 19 things | det |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knights | conj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 fail | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 fail | nsubj |
| 22 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 cause | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 cause | aux |
| 25 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cause | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 cause | aux |
| 28 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 set | parataxis |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 cause | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 hanged | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 hanged | aux:pass |
| 32 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 cause | advcl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 neck | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 neck | det |
| 35 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hanged | obl |
| 36 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 die | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 die | nsubj |
| 38 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 hanged | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commands | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 commands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | present | Duke | you | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | set not said to happen | to-infinitive | Duke not said here | free certain knights and which things | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient knight=Result | ||||
| 3 | hold | present | you | prison | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prison=Location | ||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cause | future · infinitive · do-support | Duke | you | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition you=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hange | to-infinitive · passive | the neck | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | die | present | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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