Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 137
But if he will not do this thing, then I will lay siege to his city of Saragossa, and when I shall have taken it I will bring him by force to my city of Aachen, and will pass judgment on him and he shall end his days in sorrow and shame.
Who acts: Ganelon, I · What happens: not do, lay, take, bring, pass, end · To what, where: thing, siege, Ganelon, city, judgment, sorrow
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 (Ganelon, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lay | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lay | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 lay | aux |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 city | nmod:poss |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Saragossa | case |
| 19 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 city | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 taken | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 taken | cc |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 taken | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 taken | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 taken | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 taken | aux |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 lay | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 taken | obj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 bring | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 bring | aux |
| 30 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 taken | ccomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bring | obj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 force | case |
| 33 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bring | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 city | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 city | nmod:poss |
| 36 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bring | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Aachen | case |
| 38 | Aachen | Aachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 city | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 pass | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 pass | cc |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 pass | aux |
| 42 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lay | conj |
| 43 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pass | obj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 pass | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 end | cc |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 end | nsubj |
| 48 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 end | aux |
| 49 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lay | conj |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 days | nmod:poss |
| 51 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 end | obj |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 sorrow | case |
| 53 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 end | obl |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 shame | cc |
| 55 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 sorrow | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | future | Ganelon | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lay | future | I | siege | then | to Ganelon's city of Saragossa | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result | ||
| 3 | take | shall · perfect | I | siege | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | bring | future | I | Ganelon | my city of Aachen | by force | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to city=Destination | ||
| 5 | pass | future | I not said here | judgment | on Ganelon | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 6 | end | shall | Ganelon | sorrow and shame | day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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