Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 91
This Roland is a great warrior; it will be no easy thing to conquer him.
Who acts: Roland, courage · What happens: be, conquer · To what, where: great warrior, easy thing, Roland
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 (Roland, courage), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Roland | det |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 warrior | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warrior | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 warrior | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warrior | amod |
| 6 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thing | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 thing | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thing | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warrior | appos |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 conquer | mark |
| 15 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thing | acl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 conquer | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 warrior | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this Roland | a great warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | courage | no easy thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conquer | to-infinitive | this Roland not said here | Roland | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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