Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 142
Now I give you ten mules' burden of gold of Arabia, and every year you shall have the like.
Who acts: I, you, ten mules · What happens: give, have, burden · To what, where: burden, you, like, gold
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 (I, you, ten mules), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 give | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 mules | nummod |
| 6 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burden | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 mules | case |
| 8 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burden | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Arabia | case |
| 12 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 like | det |
| 21 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | ten mules's burden of gold of Arabia | you | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient burden=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | shall | you | the like | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent like=Patient | |||
| 3 | burden | ten mules | gold of Arabia | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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