Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 44
My own son shall be one of them, and the others shall be of the noblest of the land.
Who acts: own son, others · What happens: be · To what, where: one
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 (own son, others), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noblest | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 noblest | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 noblest | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 noblest | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 noblest | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 noblest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 noblest | det |
| 17 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 one | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noblest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | My own son | one | of hostages = hostage | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | shall | the others | of the land; noble property | tree rules |
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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