Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 13
Let the dead lie as they are, but take good care that no beast of the field touch them, nor any follower of the camp.
Who acts: you, warriors, beast · What happens: let, be, take, touch · To what, where: dead lie, good care, warriors
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, warriors, beast), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lie | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lie | amod |
| 4 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 are | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 are | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 care | amod |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 touch | mark |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 beast | det |
| 15 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touch | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 field | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 field | det |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beast | nmod |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 touch | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 follower | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 follower | cc |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 follower | det |
| 24 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touch | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 camp | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 camp | det |
| 27 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 follower | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | 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 | the dead lie | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme | ||||
| 2 | does | present | warriors = warrior | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | present | good care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 4 | touch | infinitive | no beast of the field | warriors = warrior | any follower of the camp obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
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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