Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 2
I am sure that at the last we must perish by the hands of these Saracens.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, perish · To what, where: last
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 perish | mark |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 last | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 last | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 perish | obl |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 perish | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 perish | aux |
| 10 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hands | det |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 perish | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Saracens | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 Saracens | det |
| 16 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hands | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perish | must | we | the last | by the hands of this Saracens | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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