Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 21
To him said Ganelon, "I trust in you, and you only; you can deliver me from dishonour and death." "
Who acts: Ganelon, need · What happens: say, trust, deliver · To what, where: need, Ganelon, dishonour · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ganelon, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trust | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 trust | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 trust | nsubj |
| 8 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 trust | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deliver | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 deliver | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 deliver | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 deliver | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 deliver | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 deliver | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 deliver | aux |
| 18 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 deliver | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 dishonour | case |
| 21 | dishonour | dishonour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deliver | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 death | cc |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dishonour | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 deliver | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 deliver | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ganelon | need | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | trust in a quote | present | Ganelon | in need | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deliver in a quote | can | need | Ganelon | dishonour and death | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from dishonour=Initial_Location |
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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