Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 80
I have a good confidence that I shall either slay you or conquer you."
Who acts: I · What happens: have, slay, conquer · To what, where: good confidence, 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 confidence | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 confidence | amod |
| 5 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 slay | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 slay | aux |
| 9 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 slay | advmod |
| 10 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 confidence | acl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 conquer | cc |
| 13 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 slay | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 conquer | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a good confidence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | slay | shall | I | you | either property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 3 | conquer | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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