Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 49
Arm yourselves, I pray you, and I will cause your horses to be made ready, so, if God pleases, you will be in good time."
Who acts: Arm, I, God, you · What happens: pray, cause, make, please, be · To what, where: you, horses
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 (Arm, I, God, 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 | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Arm | nmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cause | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cause | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 cause | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cause | aux |
| 11 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pray | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cause | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cause | advcl |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleases | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 pleases | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleases | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 pleases | mark |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 pleases | nsubj |
| 23 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pray | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 time | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 time | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 time | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 time | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pleases | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleases | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleases | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | Arm yourselves | you | I nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause | future | I | your horses | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 4 | please | present | God | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | future | you | in good time | 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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