Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 10
If you refuse he will take it by force, and hang up both you and him."
Who acts: you, King · What happens: refuse, take, hang up · To what, where: castle, you
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King), 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 refuse | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 force | case |
| 9 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hang | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hang | cc |
| 12 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 hang | compound:prt |
| 14 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 15 you | cc:preconj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 hang | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 him | cc |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 you | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hang | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | future | King | castle | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | hang up | infinitive | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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