Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 74
"My lord Ganelon," said Marsilas, "I was ill-advised when in my anger I sought to strike you.
Who acts: lord, my · What happens: say, advise, seek, strike, anger · To what, where: lord, anger, you · 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 (lord, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 advised | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 advised | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 advised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 advised | aux:pass |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 advised | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ill | punct |
| 15 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 sought | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 anger | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 anger | nmod:poss |
| 19 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sought | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 sought | nsubj |
| 21 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 advised | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 strike | mark |
| 23 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sought | xcomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 strike | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My lord | Marsilas nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | advise speech: other in a quote | past · passive | My lord = lord | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | past | My lord = lord | my anger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | My lord = lord not said here | you | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | anger in a quote | my | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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