Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 46
I will give you Bayard my horse, that is the most precious thing I have, and my lordship of Montalban, if you can make the King to be at peace with us.
Who acts: I, that, you, King · What happens: give, be, have, make · To what, where: lordship, horse, precious thing, King, peace
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 (I, that, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 give | iobj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 thing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 precious | advmod |
| 13 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | parataxis |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lordship | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lordship | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lordship | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lordship | lordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Montalban | case |
| 22 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lordship | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 make | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 make | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 make | aux |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 peace | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 peace | cop |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 peace | case |
| 33 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | xcomp |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 us | case |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 peace | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | my lordship of Montalban | my horse | you iobj; Bayard iobj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the precious thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | the precious thing not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make a condition, not said to happen | can | you | the King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Product | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | the King not said here | peace | with us | tree rules |
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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