Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 86
For I will not suffer my son to be buried till the vanquished man be hanged, if he have not been already slain in the field."
Who acts: I · What happens: not suffer, bury, vanquish, hange, not slay · To what, where: son, vanquished man, man, field
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 (I), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 suffer | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 suffer | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 suffer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 suffer | advmod |
| 5 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suffer | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 buried | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 buried | aux:pass |
| 10 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 suffer | advcl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 hanged | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hanged | aux:pass |
| 16 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 buried | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slain | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 slain | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slain | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 slain | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 slain | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 slain | aux:pass |
| 23 | already | already | ADV | _ | 24 slain | advmod |
| 24 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hanged | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 field | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 field | det |
| 27 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slain | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suffer | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suffer | future | I | my son | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bury | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | vanquish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hange | infinitive · passive | the vanquished man | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not slay a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | man | the field | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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