Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 61
But do you, lords of France, charge as fiercely as you may, and yield not one whit to the enemy.
What happens: do, charge, not yield · To what, where: you, one whit, enemy
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 charge | cc |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 charge | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 do | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lords | punct |
| 5 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 do | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lords | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 charge | punct |
| 9 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 fiercely | advmod |
| 11 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 9 charge | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 may | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 may | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 charge | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yield | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 yield | cc |
| 17 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 charge | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 yield | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 whit | nummod |
| 20 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yield | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 enemy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 enemy | det |
| 23 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yield | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 charge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | you | lords of France obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | charge | present | fiercely property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not yield | present | one whit | to the enemy goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent whit=Theme to enemy=Goal |
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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