Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 64
Now, therefore, if you will fight with him and overcome him, then you and all your company shall return to King Charlemagne.
Who acts: you · What happens: fight, overcome, return · To what, where: Admiral, King Charlemagne
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 fight | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 8 fight | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 fight | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fight | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fight | aux |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fight | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 overcome | cc |
| 12 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fight | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 overcome | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 return | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 return | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 return | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 company | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 company | det:predet |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 company | nmod:poss |
| 20 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 you | conj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 return | aux |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fight | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Charlemagne | case |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Charlemagne | compound |
| 25 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 return | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | future | you | now | with Admiral; therefore property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | overcome | infinitive | you not said here | Admiral | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | shall | you | King Charlemagne | then | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to charlemagne=Result |
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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