Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 1
Before he had travelled far, Ganelon overtook the Saracen ambassadors, and, indeed, Blancandrin had delayed his journey that this might be so.
Who acts: he, Ganelon, Blancandrin, this · What happens: travell, overtake, delay, be, journey · To what, where: Saracen ambassadors, journey
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, Ganelon, Blancandrin, this), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 travelled | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | aux |
| 4 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 overtook | punct |
| 7 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 overtook | nsubj |
| 8 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ambassadors | det |
| 10 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ambassadors | compound |
| 11 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 overtook | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 delayed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 delayed | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 delayed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 indeed | punct |
| 17 | Blancandrin | Blancandrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 delayed | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delayed | aux |
| 19 | delayed | delay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 travelled | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delayed | obj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | mark |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 so | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 so | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 so | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 delayed | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | past · perfect | he | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past | Ganelon | the Saracen ambassadors | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | delay | past · perfect | Blancandrin | Blancandrin's journey | indeed property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent journey=Source | |||
| 4 | is | might | this | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | journey | Blancandrin | nom journey «act 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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