Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 123
Only help us to bring Roland to his death." "
Who acts: you, us, Roland · What happens: help, bring, die · To what, where: us, Roland, death
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, us, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 help | advmod |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 help | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 help | xcomp |
| 6 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | us not said here | Roland | Roland's death | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent roland=Theme to death=Destination | |||
| 3 | die | Roland | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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