Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 19
Make peace, and you shall have the best knights in all the world to serve you.
Who acts: you · What happens: make, have, serve · To what, where: peace, best knights, world, you
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knights | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 knights | amod |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 world | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knights | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 serve | mark |
| 16 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 serve | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | the best knights | all world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | |||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute |
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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