Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 14
But my nephew Roland cherished in his heart a great hatred of me, and would have done me to death.
Who acts: nephew · What happens: cherish, do · To what, where: great hatred, heart, me
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 (nephew), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 cherished | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 3 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cherished | nsubj |
| 4 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nephew | appos |
| 5 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cherished | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hatred | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hatred | amod |
| 11 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cherished | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hatred | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 done | cc |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cherished | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 done | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 done | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cherished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cherish | past | my nephew | a great hatred of me | Roland's heart | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hatred=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | would · perfect | me | to death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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