Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 7
If the enemy slay me not here, surely I shall be slain by sorrow.
Who acts: enemy, sorrow · What happens: not slay, slay · To what, where: me, I
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 (enemy, sorrow), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 slay | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 enemy | det |
| 3 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slay | nsubj |
| 4 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 slay | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 slay | advmod |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 slay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slain | punct |
| 9 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 13 slain | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 slain | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 slain | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 slain | aux:pass |
| 13 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slay | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 sorrow | case |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slain | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not slay | infinitive | the enemy | me | here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | slay | shall · passive | sorrow | I | surely property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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