Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 72
This porter I will slay, if he seek to hinder me."
Who acts: porter · What happens: slay, seek, hinder · To what, where: me
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 (porter), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 porter | det |
| 2 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slay | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 slay | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 slay | aux |
| 5 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seek | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 seek | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seek | nsubj |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slay | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hinder | mark |
| 11 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seek | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hinder | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slay | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | future | this porter | I nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seek a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | porter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hinder not said to happen | to-infinitive | porter not said here | me | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality |
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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