Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 22
You shall have a champion," answered Pinabel; "the first man that shall pronounce against you the sentence of death, to him will I give the lie with the edge of this sword."
Who acts: You, first man, I · What happens: have, answer, pronounce, give, sentence · To what, where: champion, first man, Pinabel, sentence, lie, death · 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 (You, first man, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 champion | det |
| 5 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 9 | Pinabel | Pinabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 pronounce | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pronounce | aux |
| 17 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pronounce | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sentence | det |
| 21 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pronounce | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sentence | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 give | obl |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | aux |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 give | nsubj |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pronounce | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lie | det |
| 31 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 edge | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 edge | det |
| 34 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lie | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 sword | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 sword | det |
| 37 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 edge | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | You | a champion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the first man | Pinabel | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pinabel=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | pronounce | shall | the first man | the sentence of death | against you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | future | I | the lie | Pinabel | with the edge of this sword | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 5 | sentence | death | nom sentence «communication 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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