Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 33
When the heathen ambassadors saw him they lighted down from their mules, and paid him homage.
Who acts: heathen ambassadors, ambassadors · What happens: see, light down, pay · To what, where: King · 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 (heathen ambassadors, ambassadors), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ambassadors | det |
| 3 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ambassadors | amod |
| 4 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 paid | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lighted | nsubj |
| 8 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 lighted | compound:prt |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 mules | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mules | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lighted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 paid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 paid | cc |
| 15 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 paid | obj |
| 17 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paid | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the heathen ambassadors | King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | light down | participle | ambassadors = ambassador | from ambassadors's mules | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from mule=Material | ||||
| 3 | pay | past | King | homage obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient homage=Asset |
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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