Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 27
We will beseech the King to show mercy to Ganelon.
Who acts: We · What happens: beseech, show · To what, where: King, mercy, Ganelon
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 beseech | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 beseech | aux |
| 3 | beseech | beseech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beseech | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 show | mark |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beseech | advcl |
| 8 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 show | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Ganelon | case |
| 10 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 show | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beseech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | future | We | the King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | We not said here | mercy | Ganelon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic to ganelon=Recipient |
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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