Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 36
These heathen shall never possess thee; nor shalt thou be held but by a Christian hand."
Who acts: heathen · What happens: not possess, hold · To what, where: thee, thou
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 (heathen), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 heathen | det |
| 2 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 possess | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 possess | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 possess | advmod |
| 5 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 possess | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 held | cc |
| 9 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 held | aux |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 held | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 held | aux:pass |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 possess | parataxis |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hand | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | amod |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 possess | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 possess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not possess | shall | this heathen | thee | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | shall · passive | thou | a Christian hand conj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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