Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 27
If all the people from the east to the west should drink thereof, it would not fail."
Who acts: people, west · What happens: drink, not fail
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, west), 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 | _ | 12 drink | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drink | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 east | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 east | det |
| 7 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 west | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 west | det |
| 10 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 drink | aux |
| 12 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fail | advcl |
| 13 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 12 drink | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drink | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fail | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fail | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 fail | advmod |
| 18 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fail | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink a condition, not said to happen | should | all people from the east to the west | thereof property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not fail | would | west | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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