Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 38
Fight ye must; be sure of that, for there under your eyes are the Saracens.
Who acts: Fight, eyes · What happens: be · To what, where: Saracens
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 (Fight, eyes), 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 | Fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | aux |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sure | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 there | case |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Saracens | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Saracens | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Saracens | det |
| 17 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 there | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Fight | of that; ye nsubj; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | your eyes | the Saracens | tree rules |
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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