Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 118
Then the chiefs of the heathen came one after another to Ganelon with gifts in their hands.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: come · To what, where: one, Ganelon
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 (chiefs), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heathen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heathen | det |
| 6 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chiefs | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 came | obj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 another | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Ganelon | case |
| 12 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 gifts | case |
| 14 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gifts | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the chiefs of the heathen | one | Ganelon | after another; then | with gifts in chiefs's hands | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
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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