Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 41
Render me this service, and be sure that I will repay it many fold."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: render, be, repay · To what, where: service, me
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 (you, 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 | Render | render | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Render | obj |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 service | det |
| 4 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Render | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sure | cc |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | cop |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Render | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 repay | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 repay | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 repay | aux |
| 12 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 repay | obj |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fold | amod |
| 15 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repay | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Render | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Render | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | imperative | you not said here | this service | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient service=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | repay | future | I | service | many fold obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient fold=Asset |
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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