Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 29
Of the people, too, there was not one but had to make his choice between Christian baptism and death.
What happens: not be, have, make · To what, where: one, choice
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: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 was | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 people | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 choice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 baptism | case |
| 18 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 baptism | amod |
| 19 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 death | cc |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 baptism | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Charles's choice | between Christian baptism and death | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product |
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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