Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 13

But the Duke Naymes answered, "That would be ill done, Sir Roland; you must not go hence; the Saracens would not have so much fear of us by a half as now they have if you were gone."

Who acts: Duke Naymes, you, Saracens · What happens: answer, do, not go, not have, have, be · To what, where: That, much fear, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Naymes, you, Saracens), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Naymes	det
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Naymes	compound
4	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
8	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 done	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 done	aux:pass
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 done	advmod
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 answered	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Sir	punct
14	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 done	obl
15	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Sir	flat
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 go	advmod
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	ccomp
21	hence	hence	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Saracens	det
24	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 have	advmod
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fear	amod
30	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 us	case
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 fear	nmod
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 half	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 half	det
35	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	27 have	obl
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 now	case
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 have	obl
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 have	parataxis
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 gone	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 gone	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 gone	cop
43	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 have	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Duke Naymes			tree rules
2	do in a quote	would · passive		That	Sir obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	not go in a quote	must	you		hence property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not have in a quote	would	the Saracens	much fear of us	by a half	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
5	have in a quote	present	Saracens = saracen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you		gone property	tree rules
7	fear in a quote			us		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 13