Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 35
It cannot be taken by force, but haply by famishing it may be taken."
Who acts: force · What happens: not take, famish, take · To what, where: It
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (force), 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 | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 taken | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 force | case |
| 7 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taken | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 taken | cc |
| 10 | haply | haply | ADV | _ | 12 famishing | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 famishing | mark |
| 12 | famishing | famish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 taken | aux:pass |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 taken | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | can · passive | force | It | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | famish | gerund | haply property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | may · passive | it nsubj:pass | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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