Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 3
Marsilas called together his nobles, and said to them, "This King Charles will be our destruction, for we have no longer an army wherewith to meet him.
Who acts: Marsilas, Charles, we, army · What happens: call together, say, be, have, meet · To what, where: nobles, destruction, army, Charles · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Charles, we, army), 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 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Marsilas | acl |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 called | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 destruction | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Charles | punct |
| 13 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Charles | nsubj |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 destruction | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 destruction | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 destruction | cop |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 19 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 24 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 have | advmod |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 army | det |
| 27 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 28 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 meet | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 meet | mark |
| 30 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 have | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 meet | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call together speech: assert | participle | Marsilas not said here | Marsilas's nobles | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent noble=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Marsilas | nobles = noble | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | Charles This King | our destruction | our nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | we | a army | long property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | a army not said here | Charles | wherewith property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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