Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 193
Yet if you will pay me homage I will grant it to you to hold in fief." "
Who acts: you, I · What happens: pay, grant, hold · To what, where: homage, me, fief
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, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 10 grant | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 pay | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grant | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | iobj |
| 7 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grant | aux |
| 10 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | obj |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 15 hold | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 hold | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hold | mark |
| 15 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grant | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fief | case |
| 17 | fief | fief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hold | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay a condition, not said to happen | future | you | homage | me | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient homage=Asset | |||
| 2 | grant | future | I | homage | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | you | fief | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fief=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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