Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 10
Of a truth this will bring him to shame at the last.
Who acts: this · What happens: bring, shame · To what, where: man, last
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 truth | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shame | mark |
| 9 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bring | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 last | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shame | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | this | man | of a truth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shame | to-infinitive | this not said here | the last | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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