Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 59
Keep by the tail of an old dog, and you will not go out of the way."
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, not go out · To what, where: way
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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 tail | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dog | amod |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 go | advmod |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | by the tail of a old dog | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location | ||||
| 2 | not go out | future | you | the way | tree rules |
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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