Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 72
Verily if he do not fall at my feet and beg for pardon, and renounce the faith of Christ, I will tear his crown from his head.
Who acts: Emir, I · What happens: not fall, beg, renounce, tear, crown · To what, where: feet, faith, 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 (Emir, 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 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 6 fall | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 fall | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fall | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fall | advmod |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fall | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beg | cc |
| 11 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fall | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 pardon | case |
| 13 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beg | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 renounce | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 renounce | cc |
| 16 | renounce | renounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fall | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 faith | det |
| 18 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 renounce | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Christ | case |
| 20 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 faith | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tear | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 tear | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 tear | aux |
| 24 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 renounce | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 crown | nmod:poss |
| 26 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tear | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tear | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall | present · do-support | Emir | my feet | verily property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | Emir not said here | for pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for pardon=Topic | ||||
| 3 | renounce | infinitive | Emir not said here | the faith of Christ | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Source | ||||
| 4 | tear | future | I | Emir's crown | from Emir's head | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent crown=Patient from head=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | crown | Emir | 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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