Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 101
Cut me now the half of my shirt into strips and I will bind up my wounds as best I may, and so make shift to help you against our enemies."
Who acts: you, I, shift, my · What happens: cut, bind up, make, help, wound · To what, where: half, me, strips, wounds, shift, 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, I, shift, my), 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 | Cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Cut | iobj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Cut | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 half | det |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 1 Cut | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 shirt | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 half | nmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 strips | case |
| 10 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cut | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bind | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bind | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bind | aux |
| 14 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Cut | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 bind | compound:prt |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bind | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 best | advmod |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 bind | parataxis |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 may | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 best | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 make | advmod |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cut | conj |
| 26 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 help | mark |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | xcomp |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 help | obj |
| 30 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 enemies | case |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 32 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 help | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cut | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | imperative | you not said here | the half of my shirt | me | strips | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary half=Product | |
| 2 | bind up | future | I | my wounds | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | shift | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | shift not said here | you | against our enemies | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | wound | my | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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