Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 71
Come and pay me homage, and I will make war upon King Charles, even in his own land of France.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, pay, make · To what, where: homage, me, war, own land
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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pay | cc |
| 3 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pay | iobj |
| 5 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pay | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 Charles | case |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 land | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 land | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 land | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 land | amod |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 France | case |
| 22 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 land | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pay | infinitive | you not said here | homage | me | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient homage=Asset | |||
| 3 | make | future | I | war | Emir's own land of France | upon Charles King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product |
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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