Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 13
Then cried the Admiral, "Friends, if you would have my love, do your duty, and bring this Tower to the ground.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: cry, have, do, bring, love · To what, where: Admiral, love, duty, Tower, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | 2 cried | advmod |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Admiral | det |
| 4 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Friends | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Friends | punct |
| 7 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Admiral | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cried | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 love | nmod:poss |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 duty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cried | conj |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 Tower | det |
| 23 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Admiral and Friends | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiral=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | you | my love | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | this Tower | the ground | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tower=Theme to ground=Destination | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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