Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 43
I vow to God that we would slay not a few score of Saracens before they should put us again into this dungeon."
Who acts: I, that, Saracens · What happens: vow, not slay, put, score · To what, where: God, few score, us, dungeon, Saracens
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, Saracens), 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 vow | nsubj |
| 2 | vow | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 God | case |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 vow | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 slay | nsubj |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 slay | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 slay | aux |
| 8 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 vow | parataxis |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 slay | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 score | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 score | amod |
| 12 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slay | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Saracens | case |
| 14 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 score | nmod |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slay | advcl |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 dungeon | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 dungeon | det |
| 23 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vow | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 vow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | present | I | God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not slay | would | that | a few score of Saracens | we nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Patient | |||
| 3 | put | should | Saracens = saracen | us | this dungeon | again | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent we=Goal | ||
| 4 | score | Saracens | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=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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