Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 65
Never will I consent to hold aught of this man so long as I can mount a horse or hold a spear."
Who acts: I · What happens: not consent, hold, mount · To what, where: aught, horse, spear
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 (I), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 consent | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 consent | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 consent | nsubj |
| 4 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hold | mark |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consent | xcomp |
| 7 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 6 hold | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aught | nmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 hold | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 mount | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 mount | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 mount | aux |
| 16 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hold | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mount | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 hold | cc |
| 20 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mount | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 spear | det |
| 22 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hold | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consent | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 consent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not consent | future | I | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | I not said here | aught of this man | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Theme | |||
| 3 | mount | can | I | a horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hold | infinitive | I not said here | a spear | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=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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