Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 214
Such as were not willing to be baptized into the faith, these the King caused to be hanged, or slain with the sword, or burnt with the fire.
Who acts: faith, these · What happens: not be, baptize, cause, hange, burnt · To what, where: slain
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 (faith, these), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 willing | mark |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Such | fixed |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 willing | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 willing | advmod |
| 5 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 baptized | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 baptized | aux:pass |
| 8 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 willing | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 faith | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 faith | det |
| 11 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baptized | obl:agent |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caused | punct |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 caused | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 caused | nsubj |
| 16 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 willing | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hanged | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hanged | aux:pass |
| 19 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 caused | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slain | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 slain | cc |
| 22 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hanged | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 sword | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sword | det |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slain | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 burnt | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 burnt | cc |
| 28 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hanged | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 fire | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fire | det |
| 31 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 burnt | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | willing property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | baptize | to-infinitive · passive | the faith | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cause | past | these | the King nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hange | to-infinitive · passive | these not said here | slain with the sword | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | burnt | participle | with the fire | 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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