Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 57
You took counsel of your nobles, and you sent him--so ill-advised were you--two envoys.
Who acts: You · What happens: take, send, advise, be · To what, where: counsel, King, you
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nobles | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 counsel | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 advised | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 advised | advmod |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 advised | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ill | punct |
| 16 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 you | cop |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 advised | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 envoys | punct |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 envoys | nummod |
| 21 | envoys | envoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 you | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | You | counsel of your nobles | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | you | King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | participle | You not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | you | two envoys conj | 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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