Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 34
Set up a gallows-tree near to the moat of the Tower in which the French knights abide, and make as if you were going to hang this prisoner.
Who acts: French knights, you · What happens: set up, abide, make, go, hang · To what, where: gallows, moat, prisoner
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 (French knights, 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 | Set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Set | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gallows | det |
| 4 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Set | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tree | punct |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gallows | appos |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 moat | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 moat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moat | det |
| 10 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Tower | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tower | det |
| 13 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 moat | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 abide | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knights | det |
| 17 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knights | amod |
| 18 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 abide | nsubj |
| 19 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 moat | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 abide | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 going | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 make | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 hang | mark |
| 29 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 going | xcomp |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 prisoner | det |
| 31 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hang | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle | a gallows | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient gallows=Result | |||||
| 2 | abide | present | the French knights | the moat of the Tower | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the French knights not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hang | to-infinitive | you not said here | this prisoner | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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