Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 88
The Duke answered, "Sire, if you should burn me by fire yet will I not fail my children.
Who acts: Duke, you · What happens: answer, burn, not fail · To what, where: Duke, children · 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 (Duke, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sire | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sire | punct |
| 6 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 burn | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 burn | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 burn | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 burn | aux |
| 11 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 burn | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burn | obl |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 fail | advmod |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fail | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fail | nsubj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fail | advmod |
| 19 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 burn | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fail | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Duke | Sire vocative | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | burn a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | should | you | the Duke = duke | by fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | not fail in a quote | future | the Duke = duke | my children | yet | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality |
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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