Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 59
But Richard said, "My horse you shall not have, no, not though we die all of us.
Who acts: Richard, horse, we · What happens: say, not have, not die · To what, where: all · 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 (Richard, horse, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | nsubj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 die | punct |
| 13 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 die | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 die | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 die | advmod |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 die | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 die | nsubj |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 die | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 all | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Richard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | shall | My horse | you nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not die in a quote | present | we | all of 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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