Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 16
Blancandrin spake again: "By this right hand and by this beard I swear that the end of the matter will be this: You will see the French raise their camp in all haste and go back to their own land.
Who acts: chiefs, end, You, Blancandrin spake · What happens: swear, be, see, raise, go back · To what, where: beard, this, French, camp, haste
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 (chiefs, end, You, Blancandrin spake), 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 | Blancandrin | Blancandrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | compound |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 raise | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 hand | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hand | punct |
| 6 | By | by | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hand | det |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hand | amod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beard | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 beard | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 beard | det |
| 13 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 swear | nsubj |
| 15 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 beard | acl:relcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 this | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 this | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 matter | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 this | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 this | cop |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 swear | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 26 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 French | det |
| 30 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 see | obj |
| 31 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 camp | nmod:poss |
| 33 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 raise | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 haste | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 haste | det |
| 36 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 raise | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 go | cc |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 raise | conj |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 go | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 land | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 land | nmod:poss |
| 42 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 land | amod |
| 43 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 go | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | present | all chiefs of heathenry = chief | this beard not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent beard=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | future | the end of the matter | this | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | future | You | the French | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer french=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | raise in a quote | present | Blancandrin spake | hand's camp | all haste | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent camp=Theme in haste=Destination | |||
| 5 | go back in a quote | infinitive | Blancandrin spake not said here | to hand's own land result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result |
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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