Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 78
And the false pilgrim said, "If I cannot have help of man, yet surely I shall have it of God."
Who acts: false pilgrim · What happens: say, not have, have, help · To what, where: help, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false pilgrim), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pilgrim | det |
| 3 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pilgrim | amod |
| 4 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 8 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 18 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 21 have | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 God | case |
| 24 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the false pilgrim | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | the false pilgrim = pilgrim | help of man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | the false pilgrim = pilgrim | help | of God; surely property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | help in a quote | man | nom help «act 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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