Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 22

He promises that, before a month is past he will come with a thousand loyal followers, and will receive the faith of Christ, and will become your vassal in all honour.

Who acts: Marsilas, month · What happens: promise, be, receive, become · To what, where: that, faith

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 (Marsilas, month), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promises	nsubj
2	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 promises	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	cop
9	past	past	ADP	_	12 come	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promises	parataxis
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 followers	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thousand	det
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 followers	nummod
16	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 followers	amod
17	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 receive	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 receive	cc
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 receive	aux
21	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 promises	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 faith	det
23	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 receive	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Christ	case
25	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 faith	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 become	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 become	cc
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
29	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 receive	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 vassal	nmod:poss
31	vassal	vassal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 become	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 honour	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 honour	det
34	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vassal	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	Marsilas	that		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	is	present	a month		with thousand loyal followers; Marsilas nsubj; come property	tree rules
3	receive	future		the faith of Christ		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme
4	become	future			vassal property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 22