Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 116
He is brave, and brave are they that follow him, nor will they fail the King.
Who acts: King, envoys · What happens: be, fail · To what, where: King
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 (King, envoys), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brave | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | cop |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 follow | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 follow | cc |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 follow | amod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 follow | cop |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 follow | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 follow | nsubj |
| 10 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 follow | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fail | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 fail | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fail | aux |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fail | nsubj |
| 16 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brave | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fail | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | King | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | envoys = envoy | that nsubj; King obj; follow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fail | future | envoys = envoy | the King | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
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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