Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 10
If you will give me some soldiers I will bring them prisoners hither, and your son Charlot shall have their land.
Who acts: you, I, son · What happens: give, bring, have · To what, where: soldiers, me, land
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. 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, son), 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 give | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bring | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 soldiers | det |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bring | obj |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | nsubj |
| 18 | Charlot | Charlot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | appos |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bring | parataxis |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 land | nmod:poss |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | some soldiers | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient soldier=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | future | I | soldiers = soldier | prisoners obj; hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination prisoner=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | shall | your son | Charlot's land | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
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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