Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 5
I am a Christian man myself, but keep it hidden for fear of my life."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, keep, fear · To what, where: Christian man, salutation, life
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 man | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 keep | cc |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 fear | case |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hidden | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fear | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a Christian man | myself obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | I not said here | salutation | hidden property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | fear | my life | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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