Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 72
You have conquered King Marsilas in this war, taken his castles, broken down his walls, burnt his towns, and put his armies to flight.
Who acts: You · What happens: conquer, take, break down, burnt, put · To what, where: King, war, castles, towns, armies
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 | 3 conquered | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 conquered | aux |
| 3 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conquered | obj |
| 5 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 war | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conquered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taken | punct |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 conquered | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 castles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taken | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walls | punct |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 walls | amod |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 broken | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 walls | nmod:poss |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 castles | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 burnt | punct |
| 19 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conquered | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 towns | nmod:poss |
| 21 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 burnt | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 burnt | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 armies | nmod:poss |
| 26 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 put | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 flight | case |
| 28 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | present · perfect | You | King | this war | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | participle | You not said here | King's castles and King's broken walls | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break down | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | burnt | past | King's towns | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | King's armies | to flight | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent army=Goal |
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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