Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 138
The treasurer answered, "They are ready: seven hundred camels laden with gold and silver, and twenty hostages, the noblest in the land."
Who acts: treasurer, presents · What happens: answer, be, lade · To what, where: hundred camels · 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 (treasurer, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 treasurer | det |
| 2 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 6 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | cop |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 camels | punct |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 camels | nummod |
| 12 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ready | obl |
| 13 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 camels | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laden | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 silver | cc |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gold | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hostages | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hostages | cc |
| 20 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hostages | nummod |
| 21 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 camels | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 noblest | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 noblest | det |
| 24 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 camels | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 land | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 land | det |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 noblest | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the treasurer | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | presents = present | hundred camels and twenty hostages obl; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lade in a quote | participle | hundred camels and twenty hostages not said here | with gold and silver | tree rules |
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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