Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 112
And if he be slain, then you have taken from King Charles his right hand.
Who acts: Roland, you · What happens: be, take · To what, where: right hand, Charles
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 (Roland, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taken | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 slain | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slain | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slain | cop |
| 5 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 taken | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slain | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 taken | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Charles | case |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | Roland | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | you | Roland's right hand | Charles King | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme from charles=Initial_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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