Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 20
We shall never have peace but at the price of his life."
Who acts: We · What happens: not have · To what, where: peace
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 price | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 price | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 price | det |
| 9 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peace | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 price | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | shall | We | peace but the price of pride's life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=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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