Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 38
First Roland my nephew, that should have been zealous to help me, threatens to slay me, and then there is no man that is willing to do battle with this pagan."
Who acts: that, Roland, man · What happens: be, help, threaten, slay, do, battle · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Roland, man), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 Roland | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 threatens | nsubj |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 4 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Roland | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 zealous | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 zealous | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 zealous | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 zealous | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 zealous | cop |
| 10 | zealous | zealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Roland | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 help | mark |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 zealous | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Roland | punct |
| 15 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 slay | mark |
| 17 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 threatens | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 slay | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 is | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 is | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 threatens | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 willing | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 willing | cop |
| 28 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 willing | xcomp |
| 31 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 do | xcomp |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 pagan | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 pagan | det |
| 34 | pagan | pagan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 battle | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 threatens | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 threatens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should · perfect | that | zealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | that not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | threaten | present | Roland | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | slay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Roland not said here | me | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | be | present | no man | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | present | no man | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | no man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | battle | infinitive | no man not said here | with this pagan | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pagan=Co-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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