Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 6
For Mawgis was not content with the taking of the Eagle, but would have slain the King.
What happens: not be, slay, take · To what, where: King, Eagle
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: 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 | _ | 2 Mawgis | case |
| 2 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 content | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 content | advmod |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 taking | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 taking | det |
| 8 | taking | taking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 content | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Eagle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Eagle | det |
| 11 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slain | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 slain | cc |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 slain | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 slain | aux |
| 16 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 content | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 slain | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | for Mawgis; with the taking of the Eagle; content property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slay | would · perfect | the King | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | the Eagle | nom taking «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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