Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 20
Rather," said he, "would I fight with the King in the open field; verily, if by chance he should come into my hands I would not have pity on him as I did in past time." "
Who acts: Rather, King, I · What happens: say, fight, come, not have, do · To what, where: open field, pity, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rather, King, 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 | Rather | Rather | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rather | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rather | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fight | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fight | punct |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fight | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fight | nsubj |
| 10 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 field | det |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 field | amod |
| 17 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 verily | punct |
| 19 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 chance | case |
| 23 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 hands | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 have | obl |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 have | advmod |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 come | conj |
| 34 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 pity | nmod |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 did | mark |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 did | nsubj |
| 39 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | advcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 time | case |
| 41 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 time | amod |
| 42 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 did | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Rather | verily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fight | would | Rather | the open field | with the King; I nsubj | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | should | King | by chance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location | ||||
| 4 | not have | would | I | pity | my hands | on King | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | ||
| 5 | do | past | I | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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