Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 12
But if the King will assure to us our lives and our castle we will yield ourselves to him."
Who acts: King, castle · What happens: assure, yield · To what, where: lives, us, ourselves, King
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 (King, castle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 assure | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 assure | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 assure | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 assure | aux |
| 6 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 assure | obl |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lives | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 assure | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 yield | cc |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 castle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yield | nsubj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 yield | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 yield | aux |
| 16 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 assure | conj |
| 17 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 yield | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 yield | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 assure | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | future | the King | our lives | us | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Recipient | |||
| 2 | yield | future | our castle | ourselves | King | we nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme to he=Goal |
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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