Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 96
If God does not keep us he will bring us all to our death."
Who acts: God, our · What happens: not keep, bring, die · To what, where: us, death
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 (God, our), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bring | csubj |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bring | aux |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 death | nmod:poss |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | God | us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | future | God | us | our death | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to death=Destination | |||
| 3 | die | our | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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