Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 87
And if we die, as well may be, there is this of which I can assure you: the gates of Paradise shall be open to you.
Who acts: we, gates · What happens: die, be · To what, where: you
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 (we, gates), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 be | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 die | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 die | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 assure | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 assure | cop |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 which | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 assure | nsubj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 assure | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 assure | aux |
| 18 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 assure | iobj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 assure | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gates | det |
| 22 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 open | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Paradise | case |
| 24 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gates | nmod |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 open | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 open | cop |
| 27 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 assure | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 open | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is | can · infinitive | you | which this nsubj; I nsubj; assure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | the gates of Paradise | you | open 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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