Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 48
If this please you not, then he will lay siege to Saragossa, will take you captive and carry you to Aachen, where he has his Imperial Throne.
Who acts: you, this, half · What happens: not lay, take, carry, have · To what, where: siege, you, Aachen, Imperial Throne
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 (you, this, half), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 this | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 take | nsubj |
| 3 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 lay | discourse |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 lay | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 lay | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | aux |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 this | parataxis |
| 11 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Saragossa | case |
| 13 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 siege | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Aachen | case |
| 23 | Aachen | Aachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 has | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Aachen | acl:relcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Throne | nmod:poss |
| 29 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Throne | amod |
| 30 | Throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lay | future | you | siege | then | to Saragossa; half nsubj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result | ||
| 2 | take | future | this | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme captive=Destination | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | this not said here | you | Aachen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to aachen=Destination | |||
| 4 | have | present | half | half's Imperial Throne | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=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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