Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 20
A great orator was this Pinabel, when there was need of pleading a cause, and a good soldier also, when there was need of arms.
Who acts: great orator, need · What happens: be, plead, need · To what, where: need, cause, arms
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 (great orator, need), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 orator | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 orator | amod |
| 3 | orator | orator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 need | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 need | cop |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Pinabel | det |
| 6 | Pinabel | Pinabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 need | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 was | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 need | cop |
| 11 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 pleading | mark |
| 13 | pleading | plead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 need | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cause | det |
| 15 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pleading | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 soldier | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 soldier | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 soldier | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 soldier | amod |
| 20 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 need | appos |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 soldier | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 was | advmod |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 need | conj |
| 26 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 was | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 arms | case |
| 28 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 need | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great orator | need | this Pinabel nsubj; a good soldier appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | plead speech: request | gerund | need not said here | a cause | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | need of arms | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | need | arms | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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