Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 34
If, then, your father consents to be baptized and to deny Mahomet and his false gods I will establish him in his kingdom, and take not a penny of his goods.
Who acts: father, I · What happens: consent, baptize, deny, establish, not take · To what, where: Mahomet, King, kingdom, penny
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 (father, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 then | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 If | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 consents | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consents | nsubj |
| 7 | consents | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 baptized | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 baptized | aux:pass |
| 10 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 consents | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 establish | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 deny | mark |
| 13 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 establish | advcl |
| 14 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 deny | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gods | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gods | nmod:poss |
| 17 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gods | amod |
| 18 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Mahomet | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 establish | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 establish | aux |
| 21 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 baptized | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 establish | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 kingdom | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 establish | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 take | cc |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 consents | conj |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 take | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 penny | det |
| 31 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 goods | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 goods | nmod:poss |
| 34 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 31 penny | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 consents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | present | your father | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | baptize | to-infinitive · passive | your father not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | deny | to-infinitive | I not said here | Mahomet and King's false gods | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent mahomet=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | establish | future | I | King | King's kingdom | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 5 | not take | infinitive | your father not said here | a penny of King's goods | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme |
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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