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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

iobjadvmoddetobjcasenmod:possnmodcaseoblccnsubjauxconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjadvmodparataxisnsubjccomppunctccadvmodconjobjmarkxcompobjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctrootCutVERBmePRONnowADVtheDEThalfNOUNofADPmyPRONshirtNOUNintoADPstripsNOUNandCCONJIPRONwillAUXbindVERBupADPmyPRONwoundsNOUNasADVbestADJIPRONmayAUX,PUNCTandCCONJsoADVmakeVERBshiftNOUNtoPARThelpVERByouPRONagainstADPourPRONenemiesNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CutcutVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs1 Cutiobj
3nownowADVPronType=Dem1 Cutadvmod
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 halfdet
5halfhalfNOUNNumber=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac1 Cutobj
6ofofADP_8 shirtcase
7mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 shirtnmod:poss
8shirtshirtNOUNNumber=Sing5 halfnmod
9intointoADP_10 stripscase
10stripsstripNOUNNumber=Plur1 Cutobl
11andandCCONJ_14 bindcc
12IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 bindnsubj
13willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin14 bindaux
14bindbindVERBVerbForm=Inf1 Cutconj
15upupADP_14 bindcompound:prt
16mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 woundsnmod:poss
17woundswoundNOUNNumber=Plur14 bindobj
18asasADV_19 bestadvmod
19bestgoodADJDegree=Sup14 bindparataxis
20IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 maynsubj
21maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin19 bestccomp
22,,PUNCT_25 makepunct
23andandCCONJ_25 makecc
24sosoADV_25 makeadvmod
25makemakeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin1 Cutconj
26shiftshiftNOUNNumber=Sing25 makeobj
27totoPART_28 helpmark
28helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf25 makexcomp
29youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs28 helpobj
30againstagainstADP_32 enemiescase
31ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 enemiesnmod:poss
32enemiesenemyNOUNNumber=Plur28 helpobl
33..PUNCT_1 Cutpunct
34""PUNCT_1 Cutpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1cutimperativeyou not said herethe half of my shirtmestripsnowvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary half=Product
2bind upfutureImy woundsvn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient
3makeinfinitiveyou not said hereshifttree rules
4helpto-infinitiveshift not said hereyouagainst our enemiesvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
5woundmynom 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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