Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 16
As I cast this apple at your feet so will I cast at your feet the crowns of all the Kings of the earth.
Who acts: I · What happens: cast, crown · To what, where: apple, feet, Kings
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 cast | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cast | nsubj |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cast | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 apple | det |
| 5 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cast | obl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 cast | advmod |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cast | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cast | nsubj |
| 12 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cast | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crowns | det |
| 17 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feet | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Kings | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 Kings | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Kings | det |
| 21 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crowns | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 earth | det |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Kings | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | present | I | this apple | your feet | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | cast | future | I | your feet and the crowns of all Kings of the earth | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | crown | all Kings of the earth | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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