Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 26
So the ten lords departed from Saragossa, and came to King Charles at the city of Cordova.
Who acts: ten lords · What happens: depart, come · To what, where: ten lords, Saragossa, Charles, city
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 (ten lords), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lords | det |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 lords | nummod |
| 4 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | nsubj |
| 5 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lords | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Saragossa | case |
| 7 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 departed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Charles | case |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Cordova | case |
| 18 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 city | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | participle | the ten lords not said here | Saragossa | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from saragossa=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the ten lords | Charles King | the city of Cordova | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to charles=Initial_Location |
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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