Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 16
The first blood is for us; these dogs of heathen shall suffer for their misdeeds."
Who acts: first blood · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first blood), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blood | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 blood | amod |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffer | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffer | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 is | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 dogs | det |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suffer | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heathen | case |
| 11 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dogs | nmod |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffer | aux |
| 13 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 misdeeds | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 misdeeds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | misdeeds | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suffer | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall · present | the first blood | for dogs's misdeeds; this dogs of heathen nsubj; suffer property | 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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