Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 24
So long as I live, you shall not be taken from me, so long have you been in the hands of a loyal knight."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: live, not take, have, be · To what, where: you, hands
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | 17 have | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 long | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 taken | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 live | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 have | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 hands | nsubj |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 hands | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hands | det |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 knight | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 knight | det |
| 25 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 knight | amod |
| 26 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hands | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not take | shall · passive | you | from me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | participle | you | the hands | of a loyal knight | tree rules |
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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