Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 98
Let him be a man of counsel, who can deal a blow also, if need should be."
Who acts: you, man, need · What happens: let, be, deal · To what, where: Charles, man, blow
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 (you, man, need), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deal | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 counsel | case |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 deal | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 deal | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 deal | aux |
| 11 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blow | det |
| 13 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deal | obj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 deal | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 be | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 be | mark |
| 17 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 be | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 deal | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Charles | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | a man | of counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deal | can | a man | a blow | who nsubj | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | |||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | should | need | vn exist-47.1 «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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