Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 105
Besides, though you have no more stone or iron, yet my father's treasure is here, wedges and plates of gold, wherewith you may slay the pagans as well as with stones, aye and better too."
Who acts: you, treasure, father · What happens: have, be, slay, treasure · To what, where: more stone, pagans
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, treasure, father), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 stone | det |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 iron | cc |
| 10 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 12 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 here | cc |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 father | case |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 here | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 here | cop |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wedges | punct |
| 20 | wedges | wedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 here | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plates | cc |
| 22 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wedges | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wedges | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 slay | punct |
| 26 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 slay | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 slay | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 slay | aux |
| 29 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pagans | det |
| 31 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 slay | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 29 slay | advmod |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 as | fixed |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 stones | case |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 stones | case |
| 36 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 slay | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 aye | punct |
| 38 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stones | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 better | cc |
| 40 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 stones | conj |
| 41 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 slay | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | no more stone or iron | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my father's treasure | wedges of gold and plates conj; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slay | may | you | the pagans | as stones and aye; wherewith property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pagan=Patient | |||
| 4 | treasure | my father | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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