Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 20
But if you slay me, you shall get from the deed no profit but much harm."
Who acts: you · What happens: slay, get · To what, where: me, profit, deed
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 get | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 slay | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 slay | nsubj |
| 4 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 slay | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slay | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 deed | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 deed | det |
| 12 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 profit | det |
| 14 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 harm | cc |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 harm | amod |
| 17 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 profit | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | shall | you | no profit but much harm | the deed | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent profit=Theme from deed=Source |
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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