Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 141
This is an ill starting," said the men of France, "this message will be the beginning of many troubles." "
Who acts: This, message · What happens: be, say · To what, where: ill starting, men, beginning · 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 (This, message), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 starting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 starting | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 starting | det |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 starting | amod |
| 5 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 starting | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 starting | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 France | case |
| 12 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beginning | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 beginning | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 message | det |
| 16 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beginning | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 beginning | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 beginning | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beginning | det |
| 20 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 troubles | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 troubles | amod |
| 23 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beginning | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a ill starting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the men of France | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | future | this message | the beginning | of many troubles | 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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