Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 61
Lead your army to Saragossa, lay siege to it, spend, if need be, the rest of your days before it, but take vengeance for the brave men whom King Marsilas did to death."
Who acts: you, need, King · What happens: lead, lay, spend, be, take, do · To what, where: army, Saragossa, siege, rest, vengeance, brave men
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, need, 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 | Lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 army | nmod:poss |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lead | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Saragossa | case |
| 5 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lead | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lead | parataxis |
| 8 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spend | punct |
| 12 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lay | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 be | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 be | mark |
| 15 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 be | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spend | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rest | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spend | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 days | nmod:poss |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rest | nmod |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spend | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 take | cc |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lead | parataxis |
| 28 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 men | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 men | det |
| 31 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 men | amod |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 take | obl |
| 33 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 did | obj |
| 34 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 did | nsubj |
| 35 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 King | flat |
| 36 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 men | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 death | case |
| 38 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 did | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lead | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | imperative | you not said here | your army | Saragossa | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme to saragossa=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay | present | siege | siege | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result | ||||
| 3 | spend | infinitive | the rest of your days | before need | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | need | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | vengeance | for the brave men | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme for man=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | do | past | King | the brave men | to death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Eventuality |
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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