Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 6
Know you not that the whole land is covered with the Saracens, so that as soon as the messenger is parted from us he will be slain by them?"
Who acts: you, Saracens · What happens: not know, cover, part, slay · To what, where: you, whole land, messenger, man
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, 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 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Know | obj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Know | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 covered | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 land | amod |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 covered | aux:pass |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Know | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Saracens | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Saracens | det |
| 12 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 covered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 slain | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 slain | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 slain | mark |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 slain | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 parted | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 messenger | det |
| 20 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 parted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 parted | aux:pass |
| 22 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 soon | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 parted | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 slain | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 slain | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 slain | aux:pass |
| 28 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Know | ccomp |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 slain | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | imperative | you not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | present · passive | the whole land | with the Saracens | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with saracen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | part | present · passive | the messenger | from us | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from we=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | slay | future · passive | Saracens = saracen | man | soon property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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