Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 73
It will cost you but little to take vengeance for the multitudes whom they have slain.
Who acts: half, men · What happens: cost, take, have · To what, where: you, vengeance, multitudes
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 (half, men), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cost | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cost | aux |
| 3 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cost | iobj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 take | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cost | conj |
| 9 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 multitudes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 multitudes | det |
| 12 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 have | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 multitudes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | future | half | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | half not said here | vengeance | for the multitudes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme for multitude=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | have | present | men = man | the multitudes | slain 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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