Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 76
They are worth more than five hundred pieces of gold."
Who acts: amends · What happens: be
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 (amends), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 worth | cop |
| 3 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 hundred | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 more | fixed |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 worth | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pieces | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worth | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | amends = amend | hundred pieces of gold obj; worth property | tree rules |
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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