Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 91
Say to your master for me, I yield you this land of Spain; only guard it against the Christians!
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, yield, guard · To what, where: master, land, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 master | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Say | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 yield | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 yield | nsubj |
| 9 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 yield | obj |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yield | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Spain | case |
| 14 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 land | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 guard | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 guard | advmod |
| 17 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Say | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 guard | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 Christians | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Christians | det |
| 21 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 guard | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | your master | for me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient | |||
| 2 | yield | present | I | this land of Spain | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal land=Theme | |||
| 3 | guard | infinitive | you not said here | land | against the Christians | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary against christian=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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