Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 67
But if you rather choose to abide with me, then will I give you my daughter Esclairmonde in marriage, and with her the half of my kingdom."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: choose, abide, give · To what, where: tribute, marriage
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 choose | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 choose | nsubj |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 choose | advmod |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 abide | mark |
| 7 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 choose | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 abide | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 give | advmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | iobj |
| 18 | Esclairmonde | Esclairmonde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 marriage | case |
| 20 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 her | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 her | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 half | det |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 24 her | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 half | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | abide | to-infinitive | you not said here | with me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | tribute | marriage | then | you iobj; my daughter iobj | 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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