Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 69
God forbid," answered Pinabel, "that I should desert my kinsman."
Who acts: God, that · What happens: forbid, answer, desert · To what, where: Pinabel, kinsman · 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 (God, that), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 forbid | nsubj |
| 2 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 forbid | ccomp |
| 6 | Pinabel | Pinabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 desert | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 desert | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 desert | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 desert | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 desert | aux |
| 12 | desert | desert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 forbid | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kinsman | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 desert | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forbid | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 forbid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | infinitive | God | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | God not said here | Pinabel | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pinabel=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | desert | should | that | my kinsman | I nsubj | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme kinsman=Source |
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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