Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 50
Then said the King, "My lords, King Marsilas has sent an embassy to me with many and rich gifts, lions and bears, and camels, and abundance of gold and silver.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, send · To what, where: lords, King · 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 (King), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lords | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lords | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lords | punct |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 11 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | flat |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | aux |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 embassy | det |
| 15 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 gifts | case |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gifts | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rich | cc |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 many | conj |
| 22 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sent | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lions | punct |
| 24 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gifts | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bears | cc |
| 26 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gifts | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 camels | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 camels | cc |
| 29 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sent | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 abundance | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 abundance | cc |
| 32 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 abundance | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 silver | cc |
| 36 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gold | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | then | abundance of gold and silver parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | send in a quote | present · perfect · passive | My lords | the King = king | with many gifts and lions and bears; camels obl; King nsubj; a embassy obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination embassy=Theme |
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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