Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 81
Is not Roland there, the mightiest knight that now lives, who slays any man that dares to join in battle with him?
Who acts: Roland, mightiest knight, man · What happens: not be, live, slay, dare, join · To what, where: man
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 (Roland, mightiest knight, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 there | advmod |
| 3 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 there | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 7 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 knight | amod |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lives | nsubj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lives | advmod |
| 11 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 knight | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slays | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 slays | nsubj |
| 14 | slays | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 knight | acl:relcl |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slays | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dares | nsubj |
| 18 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 join | mark |
| 20 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dares | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 battle | case |
| 22 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 join | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 battle | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Roland | the mightiest knight nsubj; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the mightiest knight | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | present | the mightiest knight | any man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 4 | dare | present | any man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | join | to-infinitive | any man not said here | in battle with knight | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in battle=Theme |
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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