Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 47
They judged that he was none other than Ganelon, and Roland cried aloud, "God grant that he fall not into the hands of the enemy."
Who acts: knights, Ganelon, Roland · What happens: judge, be, cry, not fall · To what, where: God grant, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, Ganelon, Roland), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 judged | nsubj |
| 2 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 other | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 other | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 other | cop |
| 6 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 other | nsubj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 judged | ccomp |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 Ganelon | case |
| 9 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 other | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 12 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 judged | conj |
| 14 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grant | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 grant | punct |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 grant | compound |
| 18 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 fall | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fall | nsubj |
| 21 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 grant | acl |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 fall | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hands | det |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fall | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 enemy | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 enemy | det |
| 28 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hands | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 judged | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 judged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | past | knights = knight | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Ganelon | than Ganelon; none nsubj; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Roland | God grant | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | not fall in a quote | infinitive | Ganelon | God grant not said here | the hands of the enemy | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient grant=Result |
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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