Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 51
Then the Duke Richard bade him be of good cheer, "for," said he, "if every man will but do his utmost this day we shall not fail."
Who acts: Richard bade, good cheer, utmost day · What happens: be, say, not fail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Richard bade, good cheer, utmost day), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cheer | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bade | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Richard | compound |
| 4 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bade | compound |
| 5 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cheer | nsubj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | obj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cheer | cop |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cheer | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cheer | amod |
| 10 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheer | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheer | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 cheer | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheer | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheer | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 will | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 he | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 will | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 will | mark |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 will | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 fail | cc |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 fail | aux |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 day | nmod:poss |
| 27 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 day | amod |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fail | nsubj |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 fail | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 fail | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 fail | advmod |
| 33 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 will | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | the Richard bade King | then | of good cheer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | good cheer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not fail in a quote | shall · infinitive · do-support | King's utmost day | we nsubj | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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