Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 61
My life and death are with God; and I will win my sword by fair fight or not at all."
Who acts: life, I · What happens: be, win · To what, where: sword
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 (life, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 life | nmod:poss |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 God | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 death | cc |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 life | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 God | cop |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 win | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 win | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 win | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 win | aux |
| 12 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 God | parataxis |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 win | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 fight | case |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fight | amod |
| 17 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 win | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 all | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 all | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 fight | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 win | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 win | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My life and death | with God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | future | I | my sword | by fair fight | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Eventuality |
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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