Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 68
So shall I deliver Spain from the enemy, these Frenchmen will give themselves up to you, and you shall have no more wars all the days of your life."
Who acts: I, Frenchmen, you · What happens: deliver, give up, have · To what, where: Spain, enemy, Frenchmen, you, more wars
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, Frenchmen, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 deliver | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 deliver | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deliver | nsubj |
| 4 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 deliver | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 enemy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 enemy | det |
| 8 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deliver | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 Frenchmen | det |
| 11 | Frenchmen | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 deliver | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 give | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 give | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 deliver | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 wars | det |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 wars | amod |
| 25 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 days | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 days | det |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 life | nmod:poss |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 days | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deliver | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | shall | I | Spain | the enemy | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent spain=Theme from enemy=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give up | future | this Frenchmen | Frenchmen = frenchman | you | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | shall | you | no more wars | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient |
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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