Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 37
Sit down now with your knights, and sup with us; if I have done aught amiss I will make due amends."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: sit down, do, make · To what, where: sup, aught, due amends
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. 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 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Sit | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Sit | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 knights | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knights | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sit | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sup | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sup | cc |
| 9 | sup | sup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sit | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sup | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Sit | parataxis |
| 17 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 16 done | obj |
| 18 | amiss | amiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 done | xcomp |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 done | advcl |
| 22 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 amends | amod |
| 23 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | imperative | you not said here | sup with us | now | with your knights; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | I | aught | amiss property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | make | future | I | due amends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amend=Product |
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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