Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 95
I counsel you, therefore, that you undertake no adventures but such as are necessary."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: counsel, undertake, be · To what, where: you, adventures
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, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 counsel | nsubj |
| 2 | counsel | counsel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 counsel | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 counsel | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 undertake | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 undertake | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 undertake | nsubj |
| 9 | undertake | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 counsel | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 adventures | det |
| 11 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 undertake | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 adventures | cc |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 necessary | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 necessary | cop |
| 16 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 adventures | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counsel | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 counsel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | counsel speech: other | present | I | you | therefore property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | undertake | present | you | no adventures | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | necessary property | 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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