Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 54
But if you fail in this thing, you shall surely be hanged, your wife burned with fire, and all your house destroyed.'"
Who acts: you, house · What happens: fail, hange, burn, destroy · To what, where: thing, you, wife
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 (you, house), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hanged | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 fail | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fail | nsubj |
| 4 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hanged | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 thing | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thing | det |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fail | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hanged | aux |
| 11 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 13 hanged | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hanged | aux:pass |
| 13 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wife | punct |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hanged | obl |
| 17 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wife | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 destroyed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 destroyed | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 house | det:predet |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 destroyed | nsubj |
| 25 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hanged | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hanged | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 hanged | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | this thing | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hange | shall · passive | you | your wife obl; surely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | participle | your wife not said here | with fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | destroy | past | your house | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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