Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 47
Then he commanded that the white mules should be put into stalls, and that a tent should be pitched in the orchard, and the ambassadors have such entertainment as was meet.
Who acts: Feast, ambassadors · What happens: command, put, pitch, have, be · To what, where: white mules, stalls, tent, orchard, such entertainment · 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 (Feast, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mules | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mules | amod |
| 7 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 stalls | case |
| 12 | stalls | stall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pitched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pitched | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 pitched | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tent | det |
| 17 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pitched | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 pitched | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 pitched | aux:pass |
| 20 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 commanded | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 orchard | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 orchard | det |
| 23 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pitched | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ambassadors | det |
| 27 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 entertainment | amod |
| 30 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 meet | mark |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 meet | cop |
| 33 | meet | meet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 have | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Feast | then | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | should · passive | the white mules | stalls | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 3 | pitch | should · passive | a tent | the orchard | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in orchard=Destination | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the ambassadors | such entertainment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entertainment=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the ambassadors not said here | meet 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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