Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 99
Then said the Count Roland: "Whom should we choose but Ganelon?
Who acts: Count Roland, we · What happens: say, choose · To what, where: Ganelon · 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 (Count Roland, we), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Roland | det |
| 4 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Roland | compound |
| 5 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 choose | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 choose | punct |
| 8 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 choose | obj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 choose | aux |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 choose | nsubj |
| 11 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 Ganelon | cc |
| 13 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 choose | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Count Roland | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | choose in a quote | should | we | Ganelon | Whom obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary ganelon=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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