Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 137
King Marsilas said to his treasurer, "Have you made ready the presents that I purpose to send to King Charles?"
Who acts: King, treasurer, ready presents · What happens: say, make, purpose, send · To what, where: treasurer, Charles · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, treasurer, ready presents), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 treasurer | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 treasurer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 presents | amod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 presents | det |
| 14 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 purpose | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 purpose | nsubj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 purpose | nsubj |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 send | mark |
| 19 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 purpose | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Charles | case |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 send | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | King | King's treasurer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to treasurer=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · perfect | King's treasurer = treasurer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | purpose speech: other in a quote | the ready presents | that nsubj; I nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | send in a quote | to-infinitive | King's treasurer = treasurer not said here | Charles King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to charles=Destination |
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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