Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 13
But you are wounded, and it would be dishonour to me should I overcome you by means of your weakness."
Who acts: you, courage, I · What happens: be, overcome, mean · To what, where: dishonour, me, you
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, courage, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 wounded | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wounded | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wounded | cop |
| 4 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 overcome | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dishonour | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dishonour | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dishonour | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 dishonour | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dishonour | cop |
| 10 | dishonour | dishonour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wounded | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 dishonour | nmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 overcome | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 overcome | nsubj |
| 15 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 overcome | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 means | case |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 overcome | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 weakness | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 weakness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 overcome | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | would | courage | dishonour | me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | overcome | should | I | you | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | of your weakness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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