Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 61
Else you shall be hanged till the winds of heaven dry your bones."
Who acts: winds · What happens: hange, dry, wind · To what, where: you, bones, heaven
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 (winds), 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 | Else | else | ADV | _ | 5 hanged | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hanged | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hanged | aux:pass |
| 5 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 dry | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 winds | det |
| 8 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dry | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heaven | case |
| 10 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 winds | nmod |
| 11 | dry | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hanged | advcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bones | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dry | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hanged | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hange | shall · passive | you | else property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dry | present | the winds of heaven | your bones | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bone=Result | ||||
| 3 | wind | heaven | nom wind «phenomenon 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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