Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 75
Maybe there shall be not a truce only, but peace.
Who acts: you · What happens: not be · To what, where: truce
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 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 7 truce | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 truce | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 truce | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 truce | det |
| 7 | truce | truce | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 truce | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 peace | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 peace | cc |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 truce | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 truce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | imperative | you not said here | a truce but peace | peace conj; maybe property | tree rules |
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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