Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 17
I swear that they are condemned to death one and all."
Who acts: I · What happens: swear, condemn · To what, where: blows
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 swear | nsubj |
| 2 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 condemned | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 condemned | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 condemned | aux:pass |
| 6 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 swear | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 condemned | obl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 condemned | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 all | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 one | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swear | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | condemn | present · passive | blows = blow | to death; one obj | tree rules |
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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