Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 93
Give me the gauntlet and the staff; I will go to this Saracen, and say somewhat to him after my own fashion."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, go, say · To what, where: gauntlet, me, Saracen, staff · 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 (you, I), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gauntlet | det |
| 4 | gauntlet | gauntlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 staff | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 staff | det |
| 7 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gauntlet | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Saracen | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 Saracen | det |
| 14 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 say | cc |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 18 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 17 say | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 say | obl |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 fashion | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fashion | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fashion | amod |
| 24 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | the gauntlet and the staff | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gauntlet=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | future | I | this Saracen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to saracen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | staff | after my own fashion | somewhat property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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