Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 84

Over how many countries he has passed! and how many blows has he taken on his shield, and what mighty kings has he brought to beg their bread!

Who acts: One, many blows · What happens: pass, have, take, bring, beg · To what, where: many countries, shield, bread

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 (One, many blows), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	4 countries	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 countries	amod
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passed	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blows	amod
12	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 has	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 shield	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shield	nmod:poss
18	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 brought	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 brought	obl
22	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kings	amod
23	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 what	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 brought	aux
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	nsubj
26	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 passed	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 beg	mark
28	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 brought	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bread	nmod:poss
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beg	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	present · perfect	One		many countries		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over country=Location
2	have	present	many blows				tree rules
3	take	participle	One		One's shield		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shield=Destination
4	bring	present · perfect	One			what mighty kings obl	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	One not said here	blows's bread			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 84

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 84