Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 90
By this white beard of mine, I declare that no one of the Twelve Peers shall go on this embassage."
Who acts: I, one · What happens: declare, go · To what, where: embassage · 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 (I, one), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 beard | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 beard | det |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beard | amod |
| 4 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declare | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mine | case |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 beard | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beard | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 declare | nsubj |
| 9 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Peers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Peers | det |
| 15 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Peers | nummod |
| 16 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 declare | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 embassage | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 embassage | det |
| 21 | embassage | embassage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 declare | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 declare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | I | by this white beard of mine | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | shall | no one of the Twelve Peers | this embassage | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on embassage=Location |
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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