Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 58

If a man be in deadly sin, there shall be never a drop of wine in the cup when he holds it; but if he be out of sin, then it shall fill for him.

Who acts: man, you, wine · What happens: be, not be, hold, fill · To what, where: deadly sin, drop, wine, sin

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, wine), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 sin	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sin	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sin	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sin	case
6	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sin	amod
7	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drop	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sin	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 be	expl
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 drop	cop
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 drop	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 drop	det
14	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 wine	case
16	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drop	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 cup	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cup	det
19	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wine	nmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 holds	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 holds	nsubj
22	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 drop	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 holds	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sin	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 sin	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 sin	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sin	nsubj
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 sin	cop
29	out	out	ADP	_	31 sin	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 sin	case
31	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 holds	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fill	punct
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 fill	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fill	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 fill	aux
36	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 holds	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fill	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 drop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	a man		deadly sin			tree rules
2	not is a	imperative	you not said here	a drop			of wine in the cup	tree rules
3	hold	present	man	wine				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	man		sin			tree rules
5	fill	shall	wine			then	for Oberon	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 58