Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 17

Reynaud said, "My lord King, if you had my three brothers in your power, and were about to hang them, even then would I not deliver Mawgis to you.

Who acts: Reynaud, you · What happens: say, have, be, hang, not deliver · To what, where: three brothers, power, Barons, Mawgis, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, 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	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lord	punct
5	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lord	nmod:poss
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lord	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brothers	nmod:poss
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 brothers	nummod
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 power	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 power	nmod:poss
17	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 about	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 about	cc
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 about	cop
21	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hang	mark
23	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 about	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hang	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 deliver	punct
26	even	even	ADV	_	31 deliver	advmod
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 deliver	advmod
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 deliver	aux
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 deliver	nsubj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 deliver	advmod
31	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 about	parataxis
32	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 deliver	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 deliver	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Reynaud					My lord ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	my three brothers		your power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
3	is in a quote	past						about property	tree rules
4	hang in a quote	to-infinitive		Barons = baron					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	not deliver in a quote	would	Reynaud	Mawgis	you		then		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mawgis=Theme to you=Destination

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 17