Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 48

And as he spoke, Ganelon turned upon the Saracens, and slew two of them, of whom the brother of King Sortibrant was one.

Who acts: Ganelon, brother · What happens: speak, turn, slay, be · To what, where: Saracens, two, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ganelon, brother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 turned	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct
6	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Saracens	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Saracens	det
10	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slew	cc
13	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 slew	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 two	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whom	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 whom	case
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 slew	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brother	det
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Sortibrant	case
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Sortibrant	compound
24	Sortibrant	Sortibrant	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 brother	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 one	cop
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 whom	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Ganelon				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past	Ganelon		the Saracens		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon saracen=Trajectory
3	slay	past	Ganelon not said here	two of Saracens		whom advcl	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient
4	is a	past	the brother of King Sortibrant	one			tree rules

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 48