Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 43
But let us keep together; never will I leave you; we two will stand against these heathen dogs.
Who acts: you, us, I, we · What happens: let, keep together, not leave, stand · To what, where: us, you
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, us, I, we), 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 | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 keep | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 leave | advmod |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 leave | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | nsubj |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keep | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stand | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 stand | nsubj |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 stand | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stand | aux |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 dogs | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 dogs | det |
| 19 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dogs | compound |
| 20 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stand | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep together | infinitive | us not said here | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not leave | future | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | future | we | against this heathen dogs; two nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against dog=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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