Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 24
Then the King gave the ten lords ten white mules, whereon to ride.
Who acts: King · What happens: give, ride · To what, where: ten white mules, ten lords
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 (King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lords | det |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 lords | nummod |
| 7 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 mules | nummod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mules | amod |
| 10 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ride | punct |
| 12 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 ride | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ride | mark |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mules | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the King | ten white mules | the ten lords | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient mule=Theme | ||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | the King not said here | ten white mules not said here | whereon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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