Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 94
"But," answered the King, "there is no people that can be compared with mine.
Who acts: King, people · What happens: answer, be, compare · To what, where: people · 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, people), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 compared | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 compared | aux:pass |
| 17 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 mine | case |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 compared | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | no people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | compare in a quote | can · passive | no people | with the King = king | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with my=Co-Patient |
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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