Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 11
He was of a fair presence, and had been a noble knight if only he had been true of heart.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: be · To what, where: noble knight
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment 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 (Roland), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 presence | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 presence | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 presence | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 presence | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 presence | amod |
| 6 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knight | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knight | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knight | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 knight | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 12 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knight | amod |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 presence | parataxis |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 true | mark |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 true | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 true | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 true | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 true | cop |
| 19 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knight | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 true | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 presence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Roland | of a fair presence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | a noble knight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Roland | of heart; true property | 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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