Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 133
Hear me, therefore: I do promise that if I can escape from this land, I will be christened as soon as I come to any land where this may be done."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: hear, promise, escape, christen, come, do · To what, where: me, land, I, this
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 (you, I), 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 | Hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Hear | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Hear | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 promise | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 promise | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 promise | aux |
| 8 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hear | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 escape | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 escape | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 escape | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 escape | aux |
| 13 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promise | ccomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 land | det |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 escape | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 christened | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 christened | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 christened | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 christened | aux:pass |
| 21 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 promise | advcl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 soon | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 christened | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 soon | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 land | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 land | det |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 done | advmod |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 done | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 done | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 done | aux:pass |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 land | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hear | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | imperative | you not said here | me | therefore property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present · do-support | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | escape a condition, not said to happen | can | I | this land | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | christen | future · passive | I | soon property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | come | present | I | any land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | do | may · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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