Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 39
It shall not fall from my hand as the gauntlet fell when Ganelon would have taken it from your hand."
Who acts: bow, gauntlet · What happens: not fall, fall, take · To what, where: hand, Ganelon
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bow, gauntlet), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fall | advmod |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 fell | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gauntlet | det |
| 10 | gauntlet | gauntlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | advcl |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 taken | mark |
| 13 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 taken | aux |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fell | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 taken | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall | shall | bow | my hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the gauntlet | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | would · perfect · passive | Ganelon | your hand | bow obj | tree rules |
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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