Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 7
But listen; Roland did me wrong in the matter of gold and silver.
Who acts: you, Roland, gold · What happens: listen, do, matter · To what, where: me, matter
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 listen | cc |
| 2 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listen | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 did | obj |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 did | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 matter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 matter | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silver | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Roland | me | the matter of gold and silver | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | matter | gold and silver | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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