Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 115
Will you have some alms from me or clothing? methinks you need them much.
Who acts: you, methinks · What happens: have, clothe, need · To what, where: alms
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, methinks), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 alms | det |
| 5 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 alms | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 clothing | cc |
| 9 | clothing | clothe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 me | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 need | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 need | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 need | obj |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 need | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | some alms | from me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Patient | |||
| 2 | clothe | gerund | you not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | need | present | methinks | alms = alm | you nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
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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