Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 84
Tis my command"; and he spake again, "Whom shall we send to King Marsilas, my lords?" "
Who acts: Tis, we, my · What happens: speak, send, command · To what, where: Tis, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tis, we, my), 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 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 command | nmod:poss |
| 3 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tis | appos |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tis | punct |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 spake | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spake | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spake | nsubj |
| 8 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tis | appos |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 spake | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 12 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 send | obj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 send | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 send | nsubj |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tis | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obl |
| 18 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 King | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lords | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lords | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 send | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 lords | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 lords | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | Tis | again | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | shall | we | Tis | King | my lords obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent whom=Destination lord=Theme | ||
| 4 | command | my | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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