Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 70
When they were assembled there, Blancandrin said to the King, "You do ill to deal harshly with Ganelon.
Who acts: Blancandrin · What happens: assemble, say, deal · To what, where: chiefs, King · 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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 assembled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assembled | aux:pass |
| 4 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 assembled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 assembled | punct |
| 7 | Blancandrin | Blancandrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ill | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ill | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ill | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ill | aux |
| 16 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 deal | mark |
| 18 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ill | advcl |
| 19 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 18 deal | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Ganelon | case |
| 21 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 deal | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | chiefs = chief | there | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Blancandrin | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | deal in a quote | to-infinitive | Blancandrin not said here | with Ganelon; harshly property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ganelon=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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