Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 43
As soon as it shall be known that he has been slain, you will be assailed; and if you be vanquished, not all the gold in the world will redeem you from death.
Who acts: gold · What happens: know, slay, assail, vanquish, redeem · To what, where: doubtless, Lucifer, you, death
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold), 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 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 known | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 known | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 known | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 slain | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slain | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slain | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 slain | aux:pass |
| 12 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 assailed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slain | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 assailed | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 assailed | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 assailed | aux:pass |
| 17 | assailed | assail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 known | parataxis |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 redeem | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 redeem | cc |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 vanquished | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 vanquished | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 vanquished | aux:pass |
| 23 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 redeem | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gold | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 gold | advmod |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 gold | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gold | det |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 redeem | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gold | nmod |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 redeem | aux |
| 33 | redeem | redeem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 known | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 redeem | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 death | case |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 redeem | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | shall · passive | doubtless | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | slay | present · perfect · passive | Lucifer | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | assail | future · passive | you | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | vanquish a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | redeem | future | all gold in the world | you | death | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from death=Source |
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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