Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 63
Then rose up Ganelon, and said, "Sire, I would have you take no advice, except it be to your own advantage.
Who acts: Sire, you, advice · What happens: rise up, say, have, take, be · To what, where: Ganelon, advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, you, advice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 rose | advmod |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rose | compound:prt |
| 4 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sire | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sire | punct |
| 10 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rose | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 advice | det |
| 18 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 advantage | punct |
| 20 | except | except | ADP | _ | 26 advantage | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 advantage | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 advantage | cop |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 advantage | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 advantage | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 advantage | amod |
| 26 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | Ganelon | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ganelon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | would | Sire | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | present | you | no advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | infinitive | advice | except your own advantage; your nmod:poss | 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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