Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 50
I would give you such a buffet on your face that the blood would run down amain, were it a seemly thing for a maid to do."
Who acts: I, blood · What happens: give, run down, be, do · To what, where: buffet, you, face, seemly thing
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 (I, blood), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 buffet | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 buffet | det |
| 7 | buffet | buffet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blood | det |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 run | compound:prt |
| 17 | amain | amain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 run | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thing | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thing | cop |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thing | nsubj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 22 | seemly | seemly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thing | amod |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 maid | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 maid | det |
| 26 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thing | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thing | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | I | such buffet | you | your face | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient buffet=Theme on face=Asset | ||
| 2 | run down | would | the blood | amain property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | blood | a seemly thing | for a maid | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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