Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 97
And now," he went on, "my lords, choose you for yourselves one who shall go on this errand.
Who acts: Charles, lords · What happens: go on, choose, go · To what, where: you, errand
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 (Charles, lords), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 went | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 choose | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 choose | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lords | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 choose | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lords | punct |
| 13 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 choose | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 16 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 one | nsubj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 choose | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 errand | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 errand | det |
| 23 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | past | Charles | now | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | my lords | you | for one yourselves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Theme for one=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | go | shall | this errand | who nsubj | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location |
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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