Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 66
And now all the reward that I ask is that you suffer me to smite down this Roland.
Who acts: I, reward · What happens: ask, be, smite down · To what, where: reward, Roland
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, reward), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 suffer | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 reward | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reward | det |
| 5 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffer | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 ask | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reward | acl:relcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffer | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 suffer | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 suffer | nsubj |
| 12 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 suffer | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 smite | mark |
| 15 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 suffer | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 smite | compound:prt |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Roland | det |
| 18 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 smite | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | all reward | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | all reward | you nsubj; me obj; suffer property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smite down | to-infinitive | all reward not said here | this Roland | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus roland=Experiencer |
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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