Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 106
Ganelon answered, "He and twenty thousand men of France will be in the rear of the King's army.
Who acts: Ganelon · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: rear · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ganelon), 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 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rear | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 rear | punct |
| 5 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rear | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 men | cc |
| 7 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thousand | compound |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 men | nummod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 He | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 France | case |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 rear | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rear | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 rear | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rear | det |
| 16 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 army | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 army | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 King | case |
| 21 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rear | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Ganelon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | Ganelon | the rear | of the King's army | 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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