Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 44
It will be an ill day for France if these men are carried away into captivity."
Who acts: comrade · What happens: be, carry away · To what, where: ill day, men, captivity
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 (comrade), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 day | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 France | case |
| 8 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 carried | mark |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 day | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 carried | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 captivity | case |
| 16 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | comrade | a ill day | for France | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry away a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | this men | captivity | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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