Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 74
Believe me, my lord, these Frenchmen are ready to be conquered."
Who acts: you, Frenchmen · What happens: believe, be, conquer · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Frenchmen), 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 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Believe | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Believe | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ready | punct |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 Frenchmen | det |
| 8 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ready | cop |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lord | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 conquered | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 conquered | aux:pass |
| 13 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | me | my lord parataxis | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | this Frenchmen | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conquer | to-infinitive · passive | this Frenchmen not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» |
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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