Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 80
But as for us, we must do our duty as good knights, for verily this battle will be no child's play.
Who acts: us, battle · What happens: do, be · To what, where: duty
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 (us, battle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 us | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 us | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 duty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 knights | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knights | amod |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 play | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 play | case |
| 16 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 24 play | advmod |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 battle | det |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 play | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 play | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 play | cop |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 child | det |
| 22 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 play | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 child | case |
| 24 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must | us | our duty | as good knights; we nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | future | this battle | for no child's play; no child nmod:poss; verily 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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