Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 43
If Reynaud yield him up," said he, "then this matter shall be settled peaceably and without loss." "
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: yield up, say, settle · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Reynaud), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 yield | mark |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 yield | nsubj |
| 3 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 yield | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 yield | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yield | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yield | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 settled | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 settled | advmod |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 settled | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 settled | aux:pass |
| 17 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | peaceably | peaceably | ADV | _ | 17 settled | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 loss | cc |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 loss | case |
| 21 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peaceably | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield up a condition, not said to happen | present | Reynaud | King | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | settle | shall · passive | King | then | this matter nsubj:pass; peaceably property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
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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