Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 61
Then Pinabel cried aloud, "Take back your words, Count Thierry, I will be your friend and comrade, and divide my wealth with you, if only you will make Ganelon friends with the King." "
Who acts: Pinabel, you, your · What happens: cry, take back, count, be, divide, make · To what, where: words, Thierry, friend, wealth, Ganelon friends · 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 (Pinabel, you, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | Pinabel | Pinabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 7 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 Take | advmod |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Take | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Count | punct |
| 12 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Take | conj |
| 13 | Thierry | Thierry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Count | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friend | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 friend | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 friend | cop |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 comrade | cc |
| 21 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 friend | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 divide | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 divide | cc |
| 24 | divide | divide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 divide | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 divide | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 make | advmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 make | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | aux |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 divide | conj |
| 35 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 friends | compound |
| 36 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 make | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 King | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 friends | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 divide | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 divide | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Pinabel | then | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take back in a quote | infinitive | Pinabel not said here | your words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | count in a quote | infinitive | Pinabel not said here | Thierry | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thierry=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | Pinabel | your friend and comrade | your nmod:poss; comrade conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | divide in a quote | infinitive | my wealth | with you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient with you=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | Ganelon friends | with the King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product | |||
| 7 | word in a quote | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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