Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 71

As long as it shall please God to keep me, and I have Durendal in my hand, I care not one penny for any pagan, be he giant or other.

Who acts: I, Durendal · What happens: keep, have, not care, be · To what, where: me, Durendal, hand, one penny

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Durendal), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 keep	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 shall	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shall	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
6	please	please	INTJ	_	7 God	discourse
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shall	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 keep	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	parataxis
15	Durendal	Durendal	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 care	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 care	nsubj
21	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 have	conj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 care	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 penny	nummod
24	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 care	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 pagan	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 pagan	det
27	pagan	pagan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 care	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 giant	punct
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 giant	cop
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 giant	nsubj
31	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	parataxis
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 other	cc
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 giant	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	shall		me		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	have	present	I	Durendal	my hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent durendal=Patient
3	not care	present	I	one penny		for any pagan	tree rules
4	is	infinitive	Durendal			giant property	tree rules
5	be		Durendal not said here				tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 71