Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 109
I do not deny that they will be destroyed, but, on the other hand, the men of France will receive great damage.
Who acts: I, men · What happens: not deny, destroy, receive · To what, where: lords, great damage, other hand
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, men), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deny | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deny | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 deny | advmod |
| 4 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 destroyed | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 destroyed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 9 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 deny | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 receive | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 receive | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 but | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 receive | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hand | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 receive | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 France | case |
| 21 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 men | nmod |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 receive | aux |
| 23 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 deny | conj |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 damage | amod |
| 25 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 receive | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deny | present · do-support | I | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | destroy | future · passive | lords = lord | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | receive | future | the men of France | great damage | the other hand | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent damage=Theme on hand=Location |
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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