Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 88
Shall I tarry till I am slain before I ask for help?" and putting the horn to his lips he blew it with all his might.
Who acts: I, Provost · What happens: tarry, be, ask, put, blow · To what, where: horn · 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 (I, Provost), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tarry | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tarry | nsubj |
| 3 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 slain | case |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 slain | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slain | cop |
| 7 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tarry | obl |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tarry | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tarry | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tarry | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 putting | cc |
| 16 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tarry | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horn | det |
| 18 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 putting | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lips | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 putting | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 blew | nsubj |
| 23 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lips | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 blew | obj |
| 25 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 28 might | mark |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 might | det:predet |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 might | nmod:poss |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 blew | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tarry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tarry | shall | I | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | till slain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | I | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | gerund | I not said here | the horn | to Provost's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horn=Goal | |||
| 5 | blow in a quote | past | Provost | horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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