Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 44
They shall be well guarded.
What happens: guard · To what, where: knights
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 guarded | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 guarded | advmod |
| 5 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | shall · passive | knights = knight | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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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