Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 51
He had a gilded staff in his hand, and would have struck Ganelon therewith, but that by good fortune his people held him back.
Who acts: face, that · What happens: have, gild, strike, hold back · To what, where: gilded staff, hand, Ganelon, face
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 (face, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 staff | det |
| 4 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 staff | amod |
| 5 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 struck | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 struck | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 struck | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 struck | aux |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obj |
| 15 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 13 struck | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 held | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 held | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 held | nsubj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 fortune | case |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fortune | amod |
| 21 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 held | obl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 people | nmod:poss |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 held | nsubj |
| 24 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 struck | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 held | obj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 held | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | face | a gilded staff | face's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient | |||
| 2 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | strike | would · perfect | face not said here | Ganelon | therewith property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ganelon=Instrument | |||
| 4 | hold back | past | that | face | by good fortune; face's people nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by fortune=Location |
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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