Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 24
There is nothing that he refuses them, neither gold, nor silver, nor chargers, nor mules, nor silk, nor armour.
Who acts: nothing, Blancandrin · What happens: be, refuse · To what, where: hands
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 (nothing, Blancandrin), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 refuses | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 refuses | nsubj |
| 6 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nothing | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 refuses | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gold | punct |
| 9 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 gold | cc:preconj |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 refuses | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 silver | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 silver | cc |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chargers | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 chargers | cc |
| 16 | chargers | charger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 is | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mules | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 mules | cc |
| 19 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chargers | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 silk | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 silk | cc |
| 22 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chargers | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 armour | punct |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 armour | cc |
| 25 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 silk | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nothing | there | chargers nor mules nor silk nor armour parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | refuse | present | Blancandrin | hands = hand | gold nor silver conj | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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