Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 99
Verily if you will not do this thing, I will overrun your palace and your whole city with armed men." "
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not do, overrun · To what, where: thing, palace
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 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 12 overrun | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 overrun | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 overrun | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 overrun | aux |
| 12 | overrun | overrun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overrun | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 city | cc |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 city | nmod:poss |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 city | amod |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 20 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 city | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 overrun | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 overrun | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 overrun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | future | you | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | overrun | future | I | your palace and your whole city with armed men | verily property | 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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