Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 76
Send one of your nobles to treat with him, for indeed it is time this war should have an end."
Who acts: you, white, war · What happens: send, treat, be, have · To what, where: one, end
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, white, war), 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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Send | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nobles | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 treat | mark |
| 7 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Send | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 treat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 time | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 time | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 war | det |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | one of your nobles | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat | to-infinitive | you not said here | with King | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | white | for time | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | should | this war | a end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
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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