Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 46
Think you that I will do so base a thing as to yield up my own brother?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: think, do, yield up · To what, where: you, base, own brother
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, 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Think | obj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Think | ccomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 8 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 yield | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 yield | mark |
| 13 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Think | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 yield | compound:prt |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brother | amod |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 yield | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | future | I | base | a thing obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | yield up | to-infinitive | you not said here | my own brother | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent brother=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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