Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 53
As for the Duke Richard they will not dare to harm him."
Who acts: conditions · What happens: not dare, not harm · To what, where: Richard
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 (conditions), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 Richard | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Richard | det |
| 4 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Richard | compound |
| 5 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dare | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dare | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 dare | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dare | advmod |
| 9 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 harm | mark |
| 11 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dare | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 harm | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dare | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | future | conditions = condition | as the Duke Richard | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not harm | to-infinitive | conditions = condition not said here | Richard | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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