Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 68
"Sir King," said Ganelon, "may God and Our Lady keep me!" but to himself he said secretly, "Now God forbid that Oliver should come back safe.
Who acts: Sir King, God, Ganelon, Oliver · What happens: say, keep, forbid, come back · To what, where: Sir King, Ganelon · 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 (Sir King, God, Ganelon, Oliver), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 keep | aux |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Lady | cc |
| 13 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 God | conj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 said | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 24 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 forbid | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 forbid | punct |
| 27 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 forbid | advmod |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 forbid | nsubj |
| 29 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 come | mark |
| 31 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 come | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | aux |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 forbid | advcl |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 come | advmod |
| 35 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 come | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Sir King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | may | God and Our Lady | Sir King = king | Ganelon vocative | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ganelon | Ganelon | secretly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 4 | forbid in a quote | infinitive | God | now | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 5 | come back in a quote | should | Oliver | safe property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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