Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 19
Oliver said, "Nay, but I will not leave you, and will fight for you with all my strength to the very end."
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: say, not leave, fight · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver), 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 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nay | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nay | punct |
| 5 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 leave | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 leave | advmod |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fight | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fight | cc |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fight | aux |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fight | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 strength | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 strength | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 strength | nmod:poss |
| 22 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 end | advmod |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Oliver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not leave in a quote | future | Oliver | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | future | Oliver not said here | to the end | for you; with my strength | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with strength=Co-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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