Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 123

I must tell this maiden that I, being a Christian man, may not have friendship with a Saracen; but of love I will not speak, lest it should shame her."

Who acts: I, maiden · What happens: tell, be, not have, not speak, shame · To what, where: maiden, Christian man, friendship, Esclairmonde · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, maiden), 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	3 tell	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	that	that	ADP	_	7 I	case
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 maiden	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 man	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
17	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 Saracen	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Saracen	det
20	Saracen	Saracen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 have	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 speak	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 speak	cc
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 love	case
24	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 speak	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 speak	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 speak	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 speak	advmod
28	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shame	punct
30	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	33 shame	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shame	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 shame	aux
33	shame	shame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 speak	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shame	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	I	this maiden	that I	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient
2	is a	gerund		a Christian man		tree rules
3	not have	may	I not said here	friendship	with a Saracen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Patient
4	not speak speech: other	future	I		of love	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shame	should	maiden	Esclairmonde		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 123