Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 96
I would not yield myself for all the gold and silver in the world, no nor for Bayard my horse, though I love him better than all other things.
Who acts: I · What happens: not yield, love · To what, where: myself, Reynaud
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. 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 | 4 yield | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 yield | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 yield | advmod |
| 4 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 yield | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 gold | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gold | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yield | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 silver | cc |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 silver | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bayard | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 Bayard | det |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 Bayard | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Bayard | case |
| 19 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | appos |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Bayard | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 love | punct |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 love | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 love | nsubj |
| 25 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 yield | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 love | obj |
| 27 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 love | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 things | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 things | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 better | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not yield | would | I | myself | for all gold and silver in the world goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent myself=Theme for gold=Goal | |||
| 2 | love | present | I | Reynaud | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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