Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 28
Roland is dead, and all the gold and silver in the world will not bring him back.
Who acts: Roland, gold · What happens: be, not bring back · To what, where: Roland
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 (Roland, gold), 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 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dead | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dead | cop |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bring | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bring | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 gold | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gold | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 silver | cc |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 silver | nmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bring | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 bring | advmod |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dead | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Roland | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bring back | future | all gold and silver in the world | Roland | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/37/28/