Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 19
But now take your hand from my beard, you have held me long enough.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, hold · To what, where: hand, beard, me
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 take | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 take | advmod |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 beard | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beard | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 held | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 held | aux |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 take | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 held | obj |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 held | advmod |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | your hand | my beard | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme from beard=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | hold | present · perfect | you | me | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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