Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 4
I bring you the keys of Saragossa, also great treasure which King Marsilas has sent you, and twenty hostages, the noblest in the land.
Who acts: I, King · What happens: bring, send · To what, where: keys, you, great treasure
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 bring | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 keys | det |
| 5 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bring | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Saragossa | case |
| 7 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 keys | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 treasure | punct |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 treasure | advmod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 treasure | amod |
| 11 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Saragossa | appos |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sent | obj |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | aux |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 noblest | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 noblest | cc |
| 20 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hostages | nummod |
| 21 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 noblest | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 noblest | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 noblest | det |
| 24 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 bring | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 land | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 land | det |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 noblest | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | I | the keys of Saragossa | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination key=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | present · perfect | King | great treasure | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination which=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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