Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 131
We will keep him, and if should happen that one of us be taken prisoner, we will make an exchange."
Who acts: We · What happens: keep, happen, take, make · To what, where: Naymes, one, exchange
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happen | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 happen | cc |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 happen | mark |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 happen | advcl |
| 16 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | aux |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 exchange | det |
| 22 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | future | We | Naymes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen a condition, not said to happen | should | We not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive · passive | one of us | prisoner xcomp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | future | we | a exchange | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exchange=Product |
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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