Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 56
Did he not send fifteen of his heathens each with an olive-branch in his hand, and did they not make this same profession for him?
Who acts: King, hand · What happens: not send, do, not make · To what, where: fifteen, same profession
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, hand), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 send | advmod |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 send | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 heathens | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heathens | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heathens | heathen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fifteen | nmod |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 heathens | appos |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 branch | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 branch | det |
| 12 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 branch | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 olive | punct |
| 14 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 each | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 each | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | parataxis |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 make | advmod |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 did | ccomp |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 profession | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 profession | amod |
| 26 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not send | past · do-support | King | fifteen of King's heathens | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifteen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not make | present | hand | this same profession | for King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent profession=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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