Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 98
And now I beseech you to forsake your false gods and to be christened.
Who acts: I · What happens: beseech, forsake, christen · To what, where: you, false gods
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beseech | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beseech | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beseech | nsubj |
| 4 | beseech | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beseech | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 forsake | mark |
| 7 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beseech | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gods | nmod:poss |
| 9 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gods | amod |
| 10 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 forsake | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 christened | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 christened | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 christened | aux:pass |
| 14 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 forsake | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beseech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | present | I | you | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forsake | to-infinitive | I not said here | your false gods | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | christen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» |
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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