Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 50
God in heaven help thee to escape these Pagans, and come again into the hands of Christian men, whom thou mayst faithfully serve in great straits, even as thou hast served me."
Who acts: God, thee, thou · What happens: help, escape, come, serve, have · To what, where: thee, Pagans, hands, Christian men, great straits, 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 (God, thee, thou), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 heaven | case |
| 3 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 God | nmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 escape | mark |
| 7 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Pagans | det |
| 9 | Pagans | Pagan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 escape | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | parataxis |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 hands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hands | det |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 18 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hands | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 serve | punct |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 serve | obj |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 serve | nsubj |
| 23 | mayst | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 serve | aux |
| 24 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 25 serve | advmod |
| 25 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 men | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 straits | case |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 straits | amod |
| 28 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 serve | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hast | punct |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 hast | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 hast | mark |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 hast | nsubj |
| 33 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | parataxis |
| 34 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hast | ccomp |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 served | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | God in heaven | thee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | thee not said here | this Pagans | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pagan=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | the hands of Christian men | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | serve | may | thou | Christian men | great straits | faithfully property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Value in strait=Location | ||
| 5 | have | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | serve | past | thou not said here | me | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |
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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