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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 7

Sir," answered the stranger, "I counsel you not to tarry; should the Duke know of your coming, you would hardly save your lives."

Who acts: Sir, I, you, your · What happens: answer, counsel, not tarry, come, save · To what, where: stranger, Duke know, lives · 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 (Sir, I, you, your), 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

nsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjconjnsubjadvmodmarkccomppunctauxdetcompoundparataxismarknsubjaclpunctnsubjauxadvmodparataxisnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootSirNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTansweredVERBtheDETstrangerNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTIPRONcounselVERByouPRONnotPARTtoPARTtarryVERB;PUNCTshouldAUXtheDETDukePROPNknowNOUNofSCONJyourPRONcomingVERB,PUNCTyouPRONwouldAUXhardlyADVsaveVERByourPRONlivesNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SirsirNOUNNumber=Sing4 answerednsubj
2,,PUNCT_1 Sirpunct
3""PUNCT_1 Sirpunct
4answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 strangerdet
6strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing4 answeredobj
7,,PUNCT_10 counselpunct
8""PUNCT_10 counselpunct
9IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs10 counselnsubj
10counselcounselVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 answeredconj
11youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs14 tarrynsubj
12notnotPARTPolarity=Neg14 tarryadvmod
13totoPART_14 tarrymark
14tarrytarryVERBMood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 counselccomp
15;;PUNCT_19 knowpunct
16shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin19 knowaux
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 knowdet
18DukeDukePROPNNumber=Sing19 knowcompound
19knowknowNOUNNumber=Sing4 answeredparataxis
20ofofSCONJ_22 comingmark
21youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 comingnsubj
22comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 knowacl
23,,PUNCT_27 savepunct
24youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs27 savensubj
25wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin27 saveaux
26hardlyhardlyADV_27 saveadvmod
27savesaveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 answeredparataxis
28youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 livesnmod:poss
29liveslifeNOUNNumber=Plur27 saveobj
30..PUNCT_27 savepunct
31""PUNCT_27 savepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assert in a quotepastSirthe strangerthe Duke know parataxistree rules
2counsel speech: otherpresentIvn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3not tarryto-infinitiveyouvn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4comegerundyourthe Duke know not said herevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location know=Theme
5savewouldyouyour liveshardly propertyvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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