Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 24
Take off your coat, and your hose and your shoes, and go in your shirt only, carrying on your back the saddle of a horse, and rest not till you come to the presence of King Charles, when you shall confess your misdoings, and pray for mercy.
Who acts: you · What happens: take off, go, carry, not rest, come, confess · To what, where: coat, shirt, saddle, back, presence, misdoings
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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Take | compound:prt |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 coat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hose | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hose | cc |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shoes | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hose | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shirt | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carrying | punct |
| 20 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 go | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carrying | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 saddle | det |
| 25 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carrying | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saddle | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rest | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 rest | cc |
| 31 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 rest | advmod |
| 33 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 come | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 come | nsubj |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 rest | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 presence | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 presence | det |
| 38 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 come | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Charles | case |
| 40 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 41 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 presence | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 confess | punct |
| 43 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 confess | advmod |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 confess | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 confess | aux |
| 46 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 rest | conj |
| 47 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 misdoings | nmod:poss |
| 48 | misdoings | misdoing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 confess | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 pray | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 pray | cc |
| 51 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 mercy | case |
| 53 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pray | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | imperative | you not said here | your coat | your hose and your shoes obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | your shirt | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shirt=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | you not said here | the saddle of a horse | your back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme | |||
| 4 | not rest | infinitive | you not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | present | you | the presence of Charles King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to presence=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | confess | shall | you | your misdoings | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misdoing=Topic | ||||
| 7 | pray | present | for mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=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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