Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 44
Arm yourselves, therefore; and, being armed, wait not till you are assailed in this place, but issue forth and yourselves assail the Admiral's palace, and be sure that you do this in such fashion as to become masters of it."
Who acts: issue, you · What happens: be, not wait, assail, do, become · To what, where: you, place, palace, this, such fashion, masters
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 (issue, 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 | Arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Arm | nmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Arm | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wait | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 armed | cop |
| 9 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wait | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 armed | punct |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Arm | parataxis |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 wait | advmod |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 assailed | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 assailed | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 assailed | aux:pass |
| 16 | assailed | assail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wait | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 assailed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 assail | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 assail | cc |
| 22 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 assail | nsubj |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 issue | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 yourselves | cc |
| 25 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 issue | conj |
| 26 | assail | assail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wait | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Admiral | det |
| 28 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 palace | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Admiral | case |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 assail | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sure | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sure | cc |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sure | cop |
| 34 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 assail | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 do | nsubj |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 sure | ccomp |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 do | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 fashion | case |
| 40 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fashion | amod |
| 41 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 do | obl |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 become | mark |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 become | mark |
| 44 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 do | advcl |
| 45 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 become | xcomp |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 it | case |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 masters | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | armed property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not wait | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | assail | present · passive | you | this place | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | assail | infinitive | issue yourselves | the Admiral's palace | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | issue yourselves not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | present | you | this | such fashion | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | become | to-infinitive | you not said here | masters of issue | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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