Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 68
Then Charles drew his sword and said, "If you yield not you die."
Who acts: Charles, you · What happens: draw, say, not yield, die · To what, where: sword · 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 (Charles, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 yield | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 yield | nsubj |
| 12 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | advcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 yield | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Charles | Charles's sword | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Charles not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not yield a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | present | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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