Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 32

Thus the two talked together, and by the time that they came to Saragossa they had agreed together to seek the means by which Roland might come by his death.

Who acts: two, treasures, the, Roland · What happens: talk, come, agree, seek, mean, die · To what, where: time, Saragossa · 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 (two, treasures, the, Roland), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 talked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 two	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 talked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 agreed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 agreed	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 agreed	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Saragossa	case
15	Saragossa	Saragossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 agreed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 agreed	aux
18	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 talked	conj
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 agreed	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 seek	mark
21	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 agreed	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seek	ccomp
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 come	nsubj
26	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 means	ccomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 death	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 death	nmod:poss
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the two				thus, together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	treasures = treasure	the time not said here	Saragossa			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
3	agree speech: agree	past · perfect	treasures = treasure			time	together property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seek	to-infinitive	treasures = treasure not said here					tree rules
5	mean	present	the					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	might					by Roland's death; which nsubj; Roland nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by death=Location
7	die		Roland					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 32