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description: But Ganelon answered, "Now, may God forbid that we should betray our lord, of whom we hold all that we possess." Who acts: Ganelon, God, we. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, with its dependency tree and the
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 56

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But Ganelon answered, "Now, may God forbid that we should betray our lord, of whom we hold all that we possess."

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**Who acts:** Ganelon, God, we · **What happens:** answer, forbid, betray, hold, possess · **To what, where:** lord, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ganelon, God, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:25:56
# text = But Ganelon answered, "Now, may God forbid that we should betray our lord, of whom we hold all that we possess."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	betray	betray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	conj	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ganelon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forbid** *in a quote* | may | God |  |  |  | now |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **betray** *in a quote* | should | we | our lord |  |  |  | whom *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** *in a quote* | present | we | all |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |

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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.

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**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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