Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 75
They will not tarry long in this place, and when they depart you may get much spoil by pursuing them." "
Who acts: knights, you · What happens: not tarry, depart, get, pursue · To what, where: place, much spoil, knights
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 (knights, you), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tarry | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tarry | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tarry | advmod |
| 4 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tarry | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tarry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 depart | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 depart | nsubj |
| 13 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tarry | parataxis |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spoil | amod |
| 18 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 pursuing | mark |
| 20 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 get | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pursuing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tarry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tarry | future | knights = knight | this place | long property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | |||
| 2 | depart | present | knights = knight | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | may | you | much spoil | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spoil=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pursue | gerund | you not said here | knights = knight | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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