Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 64
But you," he said, "when the time comes, will not slay but succour him."
Who acts: you, time · What happens: say, come, not slay, succour · To what, where: arm · Speech: someone speaks here
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, time), 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 | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 you | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 you | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 comes | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 slay | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 slay | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 slay | advmod |
| 16 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 succour | cc |
| 18 | succour | succour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 slay | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 succour | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | arm nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | present | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not slay | future | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | succour | infinitive | arm | tree rules |
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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