Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 57
There is not in this land of France a city or town or castle that I will not give you at your desire."
Who acts: I, your · What happens: not be, not give, desire · To what, where: land, castle, you, desire
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 (I, your), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 France | case |
| 8 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 land | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 land | appos |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 town | cc |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 city | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 castle | cc |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 city | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 give | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 give | advmod |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 castle | acl:relcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 desire | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 desire | nmod:poss |
| 23 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | this land of France; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | |||||
| 2 | not give | future | I | castle | you | your desire | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient that=Theme at desire=Asset | ||
| 3 | desire | your | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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