Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 7
Fain would I slay him," and he made as if he would draw his sword from the scabbard.
Who acts: Fain, Richard · What happens: slay, make, draw · To what, where: Richard, sword, scabbard
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 (Fain, Richard), 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 | Fain | Fain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 slay | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 slay | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 slay | nsubj |
| 4 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slay | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slay | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 slay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slay | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 draw | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 draw | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 draw | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 draw | aux |
| 15 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 draw | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 scabbard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scabbard | det |
| 20 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 draw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | would | Fain | Richard | I nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | Richard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw in a quote | would | Richard | Richard's sword | the scabbard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from scabbard=Initial_Location |
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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