Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 77
Keep him, therefore, from crossing the bridge, which thing if you fail to do, you will surely die shamefully."
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, cross, fail, not do, die · To what, where: man, bridge
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 (you), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crossing | punct |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 crossing | mark |
| 7 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crossing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thing | punct |
| 11 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 thing | det |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bridge | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 fail | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 fail | nsubj |
| 15 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fail | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fail | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 die | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | aux |
| 21 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 22 die | advmod |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | conj |
| 23 | shamefully | shamefully | ADV | _ | 22 die | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | man | therefore property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | cross | gerund | you not said here | the bridge and which thing | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not do | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | die | future | you | shamefully, surely property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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