Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 37
It were a foul shame if you should slay me.
Who acts: purpose, you · What happens: be, slay · To what, where: foul shame, me
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purpose, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shame | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shame | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shame | det |
| 4 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shame | amod |
| 5 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 slay | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 slay | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 slay | aux |
| 9 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shame | acl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 slay | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | purpose | a foul shame | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay a condition, not said to happen | should | you | me | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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