Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 99
And if any man say ought against me or my kinsmen, then will I fight with him, man to man."
Who acts: man, I · What happens: say, fight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fight | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fight | advcl |
| 6 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 me | aux |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 kinsmen | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 me | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 fight | advmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fight | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fight | nsubj |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fight | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fight | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | any man | me ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fight | future | I | then | with man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
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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