Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 68
Nothing shall hinder me from bringing him to my feet or slaying him."
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: hinder, bring, slay · To what, where: me, Emir, feet
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 (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 hinder | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hinder | aux |
| 3 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hinder | obj |
| 5 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 bringing | mark |
| 6 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hinder | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bringing | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bringing | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 slaying | cc |
| 12 | slaying | slay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bringing | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slaying | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hinder | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hinder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hinder | shall | Nothing | me | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | Nothing not said here | Emir | my feet | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | slay | gerund | Nothing not said here | Emir | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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