Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 16
Now if it should chance that I am slain in taking this message, this my son would hold my heritage and do service to King Charles."
Who acts: place, that, slain, son · What happens: chance, be, take, hold, do · To what, where: slain, message, heritage, service, Charles
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, that, slain, son), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 hold | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 chance | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chance | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 chance | aux |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 slain | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 slain | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slain | cop |
| 9 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chance | appos |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 taking | mark |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 slain | acl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 message | det |
| 13 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 son | det |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hold | aux |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heritage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 do | cc |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hold | conj |
| 24 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Charles | case |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance a condition, not said to happen | should | place | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | slain | I nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | slain not said here | this message | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | would | my son | my heritage | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heritage=Theme | |||
| 5 | do | present | my son not said here | service | Charles King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality |
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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