Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 38
So King Charles sent for Ganelon, and gave him the message to be delivered to the Admiral; and Ganelon was well content to go.
Who acts: Charles, Ganelon · What happens: send, give, deliver, be, go · To what, where: message, Ganelon, Admiral
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, Ganelon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Ganelon | case |
| 6 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 message | det |
| 12 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 delivered | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 delivered | aux:pass |
| 15 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 message | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Admiral | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Admiral | det |
| 18 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 delivered | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 content | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 content | cc |
| 21 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 content | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 content | cop |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 content | advmod |
| 24 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sent | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 content | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Charles King | for Ganelon | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Charles King not said here | the message | Ganelon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient message=Theme | |||
| 3 | deliver | to-infinitive · passive | Charles King not said here | the message not said here | the Admiral | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to admiral=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | past | Ganelon | content, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | Ganelon not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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