Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 29
And when you have slain them, gather together all your armies, and go to Mormyond, where King Charles is at this present, and take him, and put him to death."
Who acts: you, Charles · What happens: slay, gather, go, be, take, put · To what, where: men, armies, Mormyond, present, Charles
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, Charles), 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 | _ | 8 gather | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 slain | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 slain | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slain | aux |
| 5 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 gather | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slain | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slain | punct |
| 8 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 gather | advmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 armies | det:predet |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 armies | nmod:poss |
| 12 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gather | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 gather | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Mormyond | case |
| 17 | Mormyond | Mormyond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 present | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 present | advmod |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 present | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 present | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 present | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 present | det |
| 25 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Mormyond | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 take | cc |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 gather | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 take | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 put | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 death | case |
| 35 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gather | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | present · perfect | you | men = man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | gather | imperative | you not said here | your armies | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | Mormyond | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mormyond=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Charles King | this present | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | Charles | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||||
| 6 | put | infinitive | Charles | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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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