Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 21
Blancandrin answered, "This Roland must be hard of heart if he would subdue every nation and lay his hands upon every country.
Who acts: Blancandrin, Roland · What happens: answer, be, subdue, lie · To what, where: nation, hands · 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 (Blancandrin, 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 | Blancandrin | Blancandrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 5 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Roland | det |
| 6 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hard | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | cop |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 answered | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hard | obl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 subdue | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 subdue | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 subdue | aux |
| 15 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | csubj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 nation | det |
| 17 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 subdue | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lay | cc |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 subdue | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lay | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Blancandrin | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must | this Roland | of heart; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | subdue a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | Roland | every nation | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | past | Roland not said here | Roland's hands | upon every country | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
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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