Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 101
For though the King and his lords hate us, and even our father is set against us, yet I am persuaded that our mother will not fail us." "
Who acts: lords, mother · What happens: hate, set, persuade, not fail · To what, where: us, father, I
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, mother), 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 | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 2 | though | though | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hate | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lords | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lords | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hate | nsubj |
| 8 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hate | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 father | advmod |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux:pass |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hate | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 persuaded | punct |
| 20 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 23 persuaded | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 persuaded | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 23 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hate | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 fail | mark |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fail | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fail | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 fail | advmod |
| 29 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 persuaded | advcl |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 fail | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hate | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hate | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | King's lords | us | for the King | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus for king=Attribute | |||
| 2 | set | present · passive | our father | against us | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against we=Destination | ||||
| 3 | persuade | present · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not fail | future | our mother | us | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
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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