Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 98
For the sake of this Guy I will become a Christian, and if I may not have him to my husband, I will never marry.
Who acts: I · What happens: become, not have, not marry · To what, where: Guy
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 sake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sake | det |
| 3 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Guy | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Guy | det |
| 6 | Guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Christian | det |
| 11 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 become | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 have | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 become | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 marry | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 marry | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 marry | advmod |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 become | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | future | I | for the sake; of this Guy; a Christian xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not have a condition, not said to happen | may | I | Guy | to my husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | not marry | future | I | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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