Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 39
Verily, if aught happen to him, I swear by my father's soul that I will burn every monastery and church and altar in the land."
Who acts: aught, I, soul · What happens: happen, swear, burn · To what, where: King, monastery, land
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 (aught, I, soul), 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 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 10 swear | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Verily | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 4 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 swear | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 swear | nsubj |
| 10 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 soul | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 father | case |
| 15 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swear | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 burn | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 burn | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 burn | aux |
| 19 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 soul | acl:relcl |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 monastery | det |
| 21 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burn | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 church | cc |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 monastery | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 altar | cc |
| 25 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 monastery | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 land | det |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burn | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 swear | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen a condition, not said to happen | present | aught | King | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swear | present | I | by my father's soul; verily property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | burn | future | my father's soul | every monastery and church and altar | the land | I nsubj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent monastery=Theme |
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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