Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 49
So the nobles came, Ogier the Dane among them, and Turpin the Archbishop, and Count Roland, and with him Oliver, his closest friend, and Ganelon, the same that was the traitor.
Who acts: nobles, Turpin, that · What happens: come, count, be · To what, where: Ogier, Roland, traitor
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 (nobles, Turpin, that), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nobles | det |
| 3 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ogier | punct |
| 6 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dane | det |
| 8 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ogier | appos |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Ogier | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Count | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Count | cc |
| 13 | Turpin | Turpin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Count | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Archbishop | det |
| 15 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Turpin | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Count | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Count | cc |
| 18 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 19 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Count | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 him | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 him | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | parataxis |
| 24 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 him | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 friend | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friend | nmod:poss |
| 27 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 friend | amod |
| 28 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Oliver | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ganelon | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Ganelon | cc |
| 31 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Oliver | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 same | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 same | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Oliver | parataxis |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 traitor | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 traitor | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 traitor | det |
| 38 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 same | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the nobles | Ogier among men | Turpin parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | count | infinitive | Turpin | Roland | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | the traitor | 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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