Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 14
Make sure that no one lay a hand upon them till I come back."
Who acts: you, one, I · What happens: make, lie, come back · To what, where: hand
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, one, I), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 lay | mark |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | obl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | no one | a hand | upon warriors = warrior | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | come back | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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