Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 35
Blancandrin came forward and stood before King Marsilas holding Ganelon by the right hand, and said, "In the name of the Prophet, health, O King.
Who acts: Blancandrin, King · What happens: come forward, stand, hold, say, name · To what, where: Ganelon, name, Prophet · 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 (Blancandrin, King), 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 | Blancandrin | Blancandrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 holding | mark |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | nsubj |
| 8 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 10 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hand | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 22 name | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Prophet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prophet | det |
| 25 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 health | punct |
| 27 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 name | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 King | punct |
| 29 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 King | compound |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 health | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | Blancandrin | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Blancandrin not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | King | Ganelon | by the right hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ganelon=Theme by hand=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the name of the Prophet and health | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in name=Manner | |||||
| 5 | name in a quote | the Prophet | nom name «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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