Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 5
Now the wisest of the heathens was a certain Blancandrin, a man valiant in war and good at counsel. "
Who acts: wisest · What happens: be · To what, where: certain Blancandrin
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 (wisest), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wisest | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wisest | det |
| 3 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 Blancandrin | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heathens | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heathens | det |
| 6 | heathens | heathen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wisest | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Blancandrin | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Blancandrin | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Blancandrin | amod |
| 10 | Blancandrin | Blancandrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 valiant | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 valiant | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 valiant | compound |
| 14 | valiant | valiant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Blancandrin | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 valiant | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 good | cc |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 war | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 counsel | case |
| 20 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 good | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 war | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 valiant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wisest of the heathens | a certain Blancandrin | a man valiant in war appos | 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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