Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 11

And tell him that if he will return to France, you will follow him, and there, on the Feast of St. Michael, will be converted to the Christian Faith, and will be his vassal in all honour.

Who acts: you, Charles · What happens: tell, return, follow, convert, be · To what, where: Charles, France, Feast, honour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Charles), 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	_	2 tell	cc
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 return	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 return	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 return	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 return	aux
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 France	case
10	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 return	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 follow	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 follow	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 follow	aux
14	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 follow	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 there	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 there	cc
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 follow	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Feast	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 Feast	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Feast	det
22	Feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 follow	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Michael	case
24	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Michael	nmod:desc
25	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Feast	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 converted	punct
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 converted	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 converted	aux:pass
29	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Feast	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 Faith	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Faith	det
32	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Faith	amod
33	Faith	Faith	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 converted	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 vassal	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 vassal	cc
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 vassal	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 vassal	cop
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 vassal	nmod:poss
39	vassal	vassal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tell	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 honour	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 honour	det
42	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 vassal	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Charles			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	return a condition, not said to happen	future	Charles		France			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to france=Result
3	follow	future	you	Charles		there	the Feast of Michael St. parataxis	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	convert	future · passive		the Feast of Michael St. not said here			to the Christian Faith result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: to faith=Result
5	is	future	you not said here			all honour	Charles nmod:poss; vassal property	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, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 11