Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 38
Nevertheless he has sent to you one of his chief nobles, who is a great man in France. '
Who acts: King, chief nobles · What happens: send, be · To what, where: one, great man, France
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 (King, chief nobles), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nsubj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 nobles | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nobles | amod |
| 11 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 man | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nobles | appos |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 France | case |
| 19 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect | King | one you of King's chief nobles | nevertheless property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to one=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | present | King's chief nobles | a great man | France | tree rules |
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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