Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 12
If he ask for hostages, let him have them, ten or twenty, as he may desire.
Who acts: Charles, you · What happens: ask, let, have, desire · To what, where: Charles, hostages
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 (Charles, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 ask | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | advcl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 hostages | case |
| 5 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ten | punct |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 have | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 twenty | cc |
| 14 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 ten | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 desire | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 desire | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 desire | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 desire | aux |
| 19 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | Charles | for hostages | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | Charles | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | Charles not said here | hostages = hostage | ten obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | desire | may | Charles | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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