Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 64
Charles, who is King of France, bids me remember the two ambassadors whom I beheaded, and commands me, if I would redeem my life, to send him my Vizier.
Who acts: Charles, I · What happens: be, bid, remember, behead, command, redeem · To what, where: King, me, two ambassadors, life, Vizier · 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 (Charles, 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 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bids | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 King | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 King | cop |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charles | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Charles | punct |
| 9 | bids | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bids | obj |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bids | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ambassadors | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 ambassadors | nummod |
| 14 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remember | obj |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 beheaded | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 beheaded | nsubj |
| 17 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ambassadors | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 commands | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 commands | cc |
| 20 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bids | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 commands | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 redeem | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 redeem | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 redeem | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 redeem | aux |
| 26 | redeem | redeem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 commands | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 redeem | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 send | punct |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 send | mark |
| 31 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 redeem | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 send | obj |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 34 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 send | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bids | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Charles | King | of France | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bid | present | Charles | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remember | infinitive | Charles not said here | the two ambassadors | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme | ||||
| 4 | behead | past | I | the two ambassadors | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | ||||
| 5 | command | present | me | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 6 | redeem a condition, not said to happen | would | I | my life | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 7 | send | to-infinitive | I not said here | my Vizier | King | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination vizier=Theme |
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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