Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 101
In the rearguard I know well will be Roland, his nephew, and Oliver, who is Roland's companion.
Who acts: I, Roland · What happens: know, be · To what, where: rearguard, Roland, companion
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 (I, Roland), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 rearguard | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rearguard | det |
| 3 | rearguard | rearguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 know | advmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 Roland | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Roland | cop |
| 9 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nephew | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Roland | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oliver | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Oliver | cc |
| 15 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Roland | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 companion | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 companion | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 companion | cop |
| 19 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 companion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Roland | case |
| 21 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Roland | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | the rearguard | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | future | Roland and Oliver | Rather's nephew appos; Oliver conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Roland and Oliver | Roland's companion | 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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