Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 85
Let no one think of flight," he said; "never shall these heathen make songs upon us. '
Who acts: you, victory, these · What happens: let, say, make · To what, where: one think, songs · Speech: someone speaks here
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, victory, these), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 think | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | compound |
| 4 | think | think | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 flight | case |
| 6 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flight | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flight | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 shall | punct |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 shall | advmod |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 15 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 18 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | no one think | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent think=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | victory | no one think not said here | of flight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent think=Topic | |||
| 3 | make | shall | these | songs | upon us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset song=Product |
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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