Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 110
If only these heathen stand their ground, surely they shall pay dearly for the death of Roland." "
Who acts: heathen, men, Roland · What happens: stand, pay, die · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heathen, men, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 stand | mark |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 heathen | advmod |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 heathen | det |
| 4 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pay | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ground | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 9 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 12 pay | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pay | aux |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 12 pay | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 death | det |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Roland | case |
| 18 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 death | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pay | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pay | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand a condition, not said to happen | present | this heathen | men's ground | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pay | shall | men = man | for the death of Roland; dearly, surely property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for death=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | Roland | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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