Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 6
You are brave men, you lords of France," said Blancandrin, "but you serve your master ill when you give him such counsel.
Who acts: You, brave men · What happens: be, lord, say, serve, give · To what, where: brave men, master, such counsel, man · 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, brave men), 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 | 4 men | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 men | cop |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lords | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lords | nsubj |
| 7 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 men | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 France | case |
| 9 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lords | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Blancandrin | Blancandrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 serve | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 serve | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 serve | nsubj |
| 18 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 serve | obj |
| 21 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 serve | xcomp |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 give | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 serve | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 counsel | amod |
| 27 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | brave men and lords | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lord | you | of France | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | brave men and lords | Blancandrin nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | serve | present | you | your master | ill property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Attribute | |||
| 5 | give | present | you | such counsel | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient counsel=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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