Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 72
Now if I can but escape hence this day, nothing in the whole world shall bring me hither again."
Who acts: nothing · What happens: escape, bring · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 escape | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 can | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 can | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 escape | aux |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 escape | cc |
| 6 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escape | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nothing | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 bring | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | nmod |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 bring | aux |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 escape | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 17 bring | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 bring | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 escape | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | can | now; day | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | shall | nothing in the whole world | me | again | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=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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