Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 78
I accept them," said he; "may God Himself make it up to you for your bounty!"
Who acts: I, King, God · What happens: accept, say, make up · To what, where: amends, neck, 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 (I, King, God), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 accept | nsubj |
| 2 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 accept | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 accept | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 accept | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accept | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 God | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 accept | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 make | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 bounty | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bounty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bounty | bounty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 accept | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | present | I | amends = amend | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make up | may | God King | neck | you | for your bounty | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot |
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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