Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 65
The King was very angry and said, "Ganelon, you are not well disposed in this matter.
Who acts: King, Ganelon · What happens: be, say, not dispose · To what, where: you, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Ganelon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ganelon | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ganelon | punct |
| 10 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 disposed | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 disposed | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 disposed | aux:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 disposed | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 disposed | advmod |
| 16 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Ganelon | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 matter | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disposed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ganelon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not dispose in a quote | present · passive | you | this matter | well property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=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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