Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 34
Were he here, we should not be in danger; but there are some here to-day who will never fight in another battle."
Who acts: King, we, day · What happens: be, not be, not fight · To what, where: danger, battle
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 (King, we, day), 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 here | nsubj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 danger | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 danger | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 danger | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 danger | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 danger | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 danger | case |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 here | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 are | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 day | det |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 day | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 here | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 fight | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fight | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 fight | advmod |
| 23 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 day | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 battle | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 battle | det |
| 26 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fight | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | day | here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | should | we | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not fight | future | some day | another battle | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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