Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 42
But his brother Bron said to him, "Have a care; here comes King Charles with all his men; if we abide his coming in this place it will go ill with us."
Who acts: brother, Charles, we, friend, care · What happens: say, have, come, abide, go · To what, where: friend, care, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, Charles, we, friend), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | Bron | Bron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | appos |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Have | punct |
| 10 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 care | det |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Have | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 comes | advmod |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Have | conj |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 men | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 men | nmod:poss |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 comes | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 abide | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 abide | mark |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 abide | nsubj |
| 25 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 coming | nsubj |
| 27 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 abide | ccomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 place | det |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 coming | obl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 place | acl:relcl |
| 34 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 go | xcomp |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 us | case |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 ill | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 abide | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 abide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | friend's brother | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | a care | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | Charles King | here | with friend's men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | abide a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | gerund | friend | this place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | future | care | this place not said here | ill property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=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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