Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 15
If they obey, well; but if not, then you shall deal with them by Amaury's counsel."
Who acts: messengers, you · What happens: obey, deal
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 (messengers, you), 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 | _ | 3 obey | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obey | nsubj |
| 3 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 deal | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 obey | punct |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 obey | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 obey | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 deal | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 not | mark |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 deal | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 not | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 deal | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 deal | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 deal | aux |
| 14 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deal | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 counsel | case |
| 18 | Amaury | Amaury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Amaury | case |
| 20 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deal | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 deal | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey a condition, not said to happen | present | messengers = messenger | well property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | deal | shall | you | then | with messengers = messenger; by Amaury's counsel | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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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