Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 33
Now, if we do not hinder him in this his journey it may well turn to our great loss."
Who acts: we, journey, Duke · What happens: not hinder, turn, journey · To what, where: Duke, journey, great loss
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 (we, journey, Duke), 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 | 7 hinder | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 hinder | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hinder | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hinder | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hinder | advmod |
| 7 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hinder | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 journey | det |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hinder | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turn | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 turn | aux |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 turn | advmod |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 journey | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 loss | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 loss | nmod:poss |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 loss | amod |
| 20 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hinder | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hinder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hinder | present · do-support | we | Duke | Duke's journey | now | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | turn | may | journey | Duke's journey not said here | our great loss | well property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent journey=Theme to loss=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | journey | Duke | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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