Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 128
Only help us to slay Roland." "
Who acts: you, us · What happens: help, slay · To what, where: us, Roland
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), 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 slay | mark |
| 5 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 help | xcomp |
| 6 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slay | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
| 9 | " | " | 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 | slay | to-infinitive | us not said here | Roland | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=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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