Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 76
I am resolved, therefore, to do him all the harm I can, and first I will hang the Duke Richard before his eyes and the eyes of all his host."
Who acts: I · What happens: resolve, do, hang · To what, where: I, King, Duke Richard, eyes
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 resolved | aux:pass |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 resolved | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 harm | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 harm | det |
| 12 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 harm | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hang | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hang | cc |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 hang | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hang | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hang | aux |
| 20 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Richard | det |
| 22 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Richard | compound |
| 23 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hang | obj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hang | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 eyes | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eyes | det |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 eyes | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 host | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 host | det:predet |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 host | nmod:poss |
| 33 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 eyes | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hang | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | present · passive | I | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | King | all harm obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang | future | I | the Duke Richard | King's eyes and the eyes of King's host | first property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent richard=Theme before eye=Destination |
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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