Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 37
To-day our Christian Faith is in peril: do ye fight for it.
Who acts: Christian Faith, ye · What happens: be, fight · To what, where: peril
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian Faith, ye), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 peril | obl |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Faith | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Faith | amod |
| 6 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 peril | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 peril | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 peril | case |
| 9 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 fight | aux |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 fight | nsubj |
| 13 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 peril | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fight | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 peril | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | our Christian Faith | peril | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fight | infinitive · do-support | ye | for Faith | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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