Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 131
I ask from you the honour of striking the first blow." "
Who acts: I, honour · What happens: ask, strike · To what, where: honour, first blow
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 (I, honour), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 honour | det |
| 6 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 striking | mark |
| 8 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 honour | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blow | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 blow | amod |
| 11 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 striking | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | the honour | from you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent honour=Recipient | |||
| 2 | strike | gerund | the honour not said here | the first blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient |
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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