Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 26
They have not overcome me yet"; said he, "as long as a good soldier lives, he does not yield."
Who acts: Archbishop, armour, good soldier · What happens: not overcome, say, live, not yield · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archbishop, armour, good soldier), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 overcome | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcome | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 overcome | advmod |
| 4 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 overcome | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 overcome | advmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcome | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 lives | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 soldier | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 soldier | amod |
| 18 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | nsubj |
| 19 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 yield | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 yield | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 yield | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 yield | advmod |
| 24 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 long | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not overcome | present | Archbishop | me | yet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | armour | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | present | a good soldier | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not yield | present · do-support | armour | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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