Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 34
Not a man of them shall escape, nor shall Charles their King help them.
Who acts: man, Charles King · What happens: escape, help · To what, where: men
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 (man, Charles King), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 man | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escape | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 man | nmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 escape | aux |
| 7 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 help | cc |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 11 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | compound |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 King | nmod:poss |
| 13 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | nsubj |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 escape | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | shall | a man of Frenchmen | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | shall | Frenchmen's Charles King | men = man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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