Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 120
Take this sword," he said; "no man has a better.
Who acts: you, Valdabrun, man · What happens: take, say, have · To what, where: sword, better · 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 (you, Valdabrun, man), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 better | det |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this sword | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sword=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Valdabrun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | no man | a better | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Patient |
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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