Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 33
Put your horses to their full speed, if you would come in time to help him, and let a blast be sounded by every trumpet that there is in the army."
Who acts: you, blast · What happens: put, come, help, let, sound, be · To what, where: horses, horse, blast, army
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, blast), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 horses | nmod:poss |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 speed | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 speed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speed | amod |
| 7 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 blast | det |
| 22 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sounded | aux:pass |
| 24 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 let | xcomp |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 trumpet | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 trumpet | det |
| 27 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sounded | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 is | mark |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 is | expl |
| 30 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 trumpet | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 army | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 army | det |
| 33 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 is | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | your horses | to Archbishop's full speed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Goal | |||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | would | you | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | horse | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | you not said here | a blast | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sound | infinitive · passive | a blast not said here | by every trumpet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: by trumpet=Location | ||||
| 6 | be | present | a blast not said here | the army; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in army=Location |
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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