Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 53
Of a truth the man who should do battle for love of her would be well inspired."
Who acts: man · What happens: do, battle, inspire, love · To what, where: man, Floripas
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: who acts (man), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 truth | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inspired | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inspired | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 do | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 love | case |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 battle | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 love | nmod |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 inspired | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 inspired | aux:pass |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 inspired | advmod |
| 17 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 inspired | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 inspired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | battle | infinitive | the man not said here | for love of Floripas | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | inspire | would · passive | the man | of a truth; well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | love | Floripas | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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