Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 141
You shall not fail to have the best of my treasures, if you will only help me against Roland.
Who acts: You, my · What happens: not fail, have, help, treasure · To what, where: best, me
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fail | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fail | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fail | advmod |
| 4 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fail | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 treasures | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 best | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 help | advmod |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fail | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 Roland | case |
| 20 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 help | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | shall | You | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | You not said here | the best of my treasures | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Patient | ||||
| 3 | help a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | against Roland | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | treasure | my | nom treasure «possession 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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