Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 46
If you would save yourself from such dishonour, deliver him and his brethren to the King."
Who acts: you · What happens: save, deliver · To what, where: yourself, such dishonour, Earl
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), 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 | _ | 4 save | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 save | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 save | aux |
| 4 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 deliver | advcl |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 save | iobj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 dishonour | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dishonour | amod |
| 8 | dishonour | dishonour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 save | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deliver | punct |
| 10 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 deliver | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brethren | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 him | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 brethren | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 deliver | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save a condition, not said to happen | would | you | yourself | such dishonour | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme from dishonour=Source | |||
| 2 | deliver | imperative | you not said here | Earl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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