Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 101
Come, therefore, and receive my sword, which I willingly yield to you."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, receive, yield · To what, where: sword, you
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), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 receive | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 receive | cc |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sword | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 yield | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 yield | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 yield | nsubj |
| 12 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 13 yield | advmod |
| 13 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sword | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 yield | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 17 | " | " | 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 | therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | infinitive | you not said here | my sword | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | yield | present | I | my sword | you | willingly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent which=Theme to you=Goal |
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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