Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 14
Verily, when I shall have taken it, I will burn with fire this ill daughter of mine, Floripas."
Who acts: I · What happens: take, burn · To what, where: Tower
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 7 taken | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Verily | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 taken | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 taken | aux |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 burn | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taken | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 burn | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 burn | aux |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burn | obl |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 daughter | det |
| 16 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daughter | amod |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burn | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mine | case |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Floripas | punct |
| 21 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 burn | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall · perfect | I | Tower | verily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | future | I | with fire; this ill daughter of mine parataxis | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=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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