Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 63
I would counsel you to do nothing before the morrow."
Who acts: I · What happens: counsel, do · To what, where: you, nothing
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 (I), 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 counsel | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 counsel | aux |
| 3 | counsel | counsel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 counsel | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 counsel | xcomp |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morrow | det |
| 10 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counsel | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 counsel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | counsel speech: other | would | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing | before the morrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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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