Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 79
Said the King, "Believe me, Ganelon, that I greatly desire to be your friend.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, believe, desire, be · To what, where: King, friend · 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 (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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Believe | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Believe | punct |
| 6 | Believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Believe | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ganelon | punct |
| 9 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Believe | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desire | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 desire | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 desire | nsubj |
| 13 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 14 desire | advmod |
| 14 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Believe | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 friend | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 friend | cop |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 desire | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | infinitive | the King = king | Ganelon obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | desire in a quote | present | the King = king | greatly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the King = king not said here | your friend | your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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