Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 39
So long as he lived he would not yield himself to the enemy or give place to them. "
Who acts: Roland · What happens: live, not yield, give · To what, where: Roland, enemy, place, hills
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 lived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 lived | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 yield | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 yield | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 yield | advmod |
| 9 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lived | ccomp |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 yield | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 enemy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 enemy | det |
| 13 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yield | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 yield | conj |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Roland | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not yield | would | Roland | Roland | to the enemy goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to enemy=Goal | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | Roland not said here | place | hills = hill | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to they=Recipient |
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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