Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 67
I will slay him with the point of my spear if Mahomet will help me.
Who acts: I, Mahomet · What happens: slay, help, point · To what, where: Roland, me, spear
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 (I, Mahomet), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 slay | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 slay | aux |
| 3 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slay | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 point | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 point | det |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slay | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 spear | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 spear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 point | nmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 12 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 help | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 slay | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | future | I | Roland | with the point of my spear | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with point=Instrument | |||
| 2 | help a condition, not said to happen | future | Mahomet | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | point | my spear | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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