Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 180
If you would bear your crown where it should be borne you must strike with all your might."
Who acts: you, your · What happens: bear, strike, crown · To what, where: crown
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, your), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 bear | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 crown | nmod:poss |
| 6 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 borne | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 borne | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 borne | aux:pass |
| 11 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bear | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 strike | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 strike | aux |
| 14 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 borne | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 might | mark |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 might | det:predet |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 might | nmod:poss |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 strike | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | would | you | your crown | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | should · passive | crown | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | strike | must | you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | crown | your | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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