Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 34
If you take these men alive the King will give you great thanks therefor, and you will have Bayard for your own, and the war will be ended."
Who acts: you, King · What happens: take, give, have, end · To what, where: men, great thanks therefor, you, Bayard, war
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. 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 take | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | advcl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 take | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 therefor | amod |
| 13 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 therefor | compound |
| 14 | therefor | therefor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | conj |
| 20 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 own | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 own | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 have | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ended | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ended | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 war | det |
| 27 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ended | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 ended | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ended | aux:pass |
| 30 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 give | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | you | this men | alive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | future | the King | great thanks therefor | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient therefor=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | future | you | Bayard | for your own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bayard=Patient | |||
| 4 | end | future · passive | the war | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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