Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 13
Then said the Duke, "I would lose my castle and the half of my land, if only my brother Benes had not slain the Prince Lothair."
Who acts: Duke · What happens: say, lose, not slay · To what, where: castle, brother Benes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Duke | det |
| 4 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lose | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lose | aux |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 castle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 half | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 half | det |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 castle | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 land | nmod:poss |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 half | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 slain | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 slain | mark |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 Benes | advmod |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Benes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Benes | compound |
| 23 | Benes | bene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 slain | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 slain | advmod |
| 26 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lose | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lothair | det |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lothair | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 slain | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | would | the Duke = duke | my castle and the half of my land | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not slay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | my brother Benes | the Lothair Prince obj | 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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