Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 68
Geoffrey, on his part, said to the prisoners, "Show yourselves men, fair sirs, and suffer not a single pagan to escape!"
Who acts: Geoffrey · What happens: say, show, not suffer, escape · To what, where: prisoners, men, single pagan · 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 (Geoffrey), 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 | Geoffrey | Geoffrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 part | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 part | nmod:poss |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Geoffrey | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Geoffrey | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 prisoners | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prisoners | det |
| 10 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Show | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Show | punct |
| 13 | Show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 14 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 Show | iobj |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Show | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sirs | punct |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sirs | amod |
| 18 | sirs | sir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 men | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suffer | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 suffer | cc |
| 21 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 Show | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 suffer | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pagan | det |
| 24 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pagan | amod |
| 25 | pagan | pagan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suffer | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 escape | mark |
| 27 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 pagan | acl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 suffer | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Geoffrey | the prisoners | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prisoner=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | infinitive | men and fair sirs | the prisoners = prisoner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Recipient man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not suffer in a quote | infinitive | a single pagan | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pagan=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | escape in a quote | to-infinitive | a single pagan not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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