Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 28
But cursed would he be that does not sell his life dearly!
Who acts: Roland · What happens: curse, be, not sell · To what, where: that, life
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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 | _ | 2 cursed | cc |
| 2 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sell | advcl |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sell | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sell | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 that | cop |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 he | conj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sell | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sell | advmod |
| 9 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sell | obj |
| 12 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 9 sell | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | Roland not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | Roland not said here | that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not sell | would · do-support | Roland | Roland's life | dearly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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