Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 66
All held their peace save the King's son, who cried, "Ganelon has spoken as a fool speaks; verily he deserves to die.
Who acts: peace, son, fool, King, ambassadors · What happens: hold, save, cry, speak, deserve, die · To what, where: son, Ganelon · 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 (peace, son, fool, King), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 2 held | advmod |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 peace | nmod:poss |
| 4 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | nsubj |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 son | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoken | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoken | punct |
| 15 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoken | aux |
| 17 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 speaks | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fool | det |
| 20 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speaks | nsubj |
| 21 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoken | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 deserves | punct |
| 23 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 25 deserves | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deserves | nsubj |
| 25 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 die | mark |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 deserves | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | all property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | save | present | ambassadors's peace | the King's son | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the King's son | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Ganelon | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | a fool | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | deserve in a quote | present | King | verily property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | pacify | ambassadors = ambassador | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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