Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 56
You had put yourself in evil case," said his Vizier to him, "had you struck this Frenchman.
Who acts: You, Vizier · What happens: put, say, have, strike · To what, where: yourself, evil case, King, you, Frenchman · 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 (You, Vizier), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 case | case |
| 6 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 case | amod |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 Frenchman | det |
| 21 | Frenchman | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect | You | yourself | evil case | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | King's Vizier | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | King's Vizier not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike | participle | you not said here | this Frenchman | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frenchman=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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