Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 89
My pardon you shall have," answered the Admiral, "if you will promise not to trespass against me hereafter, and will swear to be my man so long as you shall live." "
Who acts: pardon, you, My · What happens: have, answer, promise, not trespass, swear, be · To what, where: Admiral, hereafter, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pardon, you, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Admiral | det |
| 10 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trespass | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 trespass | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 promise | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 promise | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 promise | aux |
| 16 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 trespass | csubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 trespass | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 trespass | mark |
| 19 | trespass | trespass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 trespass | obl |
| 22 | hereafter | hereafter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trespass | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swear | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 swear | cc |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 swear | aux |
| 26 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 man | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 man | cop |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 man | nmod:poss |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swear | ccomp |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 long | advmod |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 swear | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 live | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 live | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 live | aux |
| 36 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 long | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | My pardon | you nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the Admiral | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent admiral=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not trespass | to-infinitive | hereafter | against me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swear | future | My pardon not said here | long property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | My pardon not said here | my man | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 7 | live | shall | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | pardon | My | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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