Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 136
Say to King Marsilas, that if he will come and own himself to be my vassal and receive holy baptism, I will give him half the kingdom of Spain; the other half is for Count Roland.
Who acts: you, Ganelon, I, other half · What happens: say, come, own, be, receive, give · To what, where: King Marsilas, Ganelon, holy baptism, kingdom · 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, Ganelon, I, other half), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Marsilas | case |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Marsilas | compound |
| 4 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 own | cc |
| 12 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 own | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 vassal | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 vassal | cop |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 vassal | nmod:poss |
| 17 | vassal | vassal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 own | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 receive | cc |
| 19 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 vassal | conj |
| 20 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 baptism | amod |
| 21 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 receive | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 29 kingdom | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 kingdom | det |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Spain | case |
| 31 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 kingdom | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 Count | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 half | det |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 half | amod |
| 35 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 38 Count | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 Count | cop |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 Count | case |
| 38 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obj |
| 39 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Count | flat |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | King Marsilas | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to marsilas=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | future | Ganelon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | own | infinitive | Ganelon not said here | Ganelon | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | Ganelon not said here | my nmod:poss; vassal property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | receive | present | Ganelon not said here | holy baptism | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baptism=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | future | I | half kingdom of Spain | Ganelon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kingdom=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | present | the other half | for Count | 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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