Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 4
Do you follow me, and when you have passed the first gate throw off your cloaks and smite with your swords.
Who acts: you · What happens: follow, pass, throw off, smite · To what, where: me, first gate, cloaks
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 passed | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | aux |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 follow | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 gate | amod |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obj |
| 14 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 throw | compound:prt |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cloaks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 throw | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smite | cc |
| 19 | smite | smite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 throw | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 swords | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 swords | nmod:poss |
| 22 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 smite | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · do-support | you | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | present · perfect | you | the first gate | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | throw off | infinitive | your cloaks | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | |||||
| 4 | smite | infinitive | with your swords | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sword=Instrument |
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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