Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 55
Leave him now, and let us go back to France, where we shall be masters without contradiction from any man."
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: leave, let, go back, be · To what, where: King, us, France, masters
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, us, we), 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Leave | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | conj |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 France | case |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 masters | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 masters | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 masters | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 masters | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 masters | cop |
| 17 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 France | conj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 contradiction | case |
| 19 | contradiction | contradiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 masters | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 masters | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | King | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go back | infinitive | us not said here | France and masters | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to france=Result | ||||
| 4 | is a | shall | we | masters | without contradiction; from any man | tree rules |
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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