Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 36
He sends therefore lions and bears, camels and falcons, four hundred mules laden with gold and silver, wherewith you can pay all your soldiers.
Who acts: master, you · What happens: send, lade, pay · To what, where: lions, hundred mules, soldiers
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 (master, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sends | nsubj |
| 2 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 sends | advmod |
| 4 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sends | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bears | cc |
| 6 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lions | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 camels | punct |
| 8 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lions | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 falcons | cc |
| 10 | falcons | falcon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 camels | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mules | punct |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hundred | compound |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 mules | nummod |
| 14 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lions | conj |
| 15 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 mules | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laden | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 silver | cc |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gold | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pay | punct |
| 21 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 pay | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 pay | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 pay | aux |
| 24 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sends | conj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 soldiers | det:predet |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pay | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | master | lions and bears and camels and falcons and hundred mules | therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | |||
| 2 | lade | participle | hundred mules not said here | with gold and silver | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | can | you | your soldiers | wherewith property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=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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