Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 48
Good store he has had of gold and silver as a reward; 'tis the King Marsilas that has made merchandise of us, but verily it is with our swords that he shall be paid."
Who acts: Roland, Marsilas, swords · What happens: have, make, be, pay · To what, where: Good store, tis, Roland
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, Marsilas, swords), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 store | amod |
| 2 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 silver | cc |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 reward | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 reward | det |
| 12 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tis | punct |
| 15 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Marsilas | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Marsilas | compound |
| 18 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 made | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | conj |
| 22 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 merchandise | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 swords | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 swords | cc |
| 27 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 32 swords | advmod |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 swords | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 swords | cop |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 swords | case |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 swords | nmod:poss |
| 32 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | parataxis |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 paid | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 paid | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 paid | aux:pass |
| 37 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 swords | acl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | Roland | Good store | of gold as a reward and silver | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | present · perfect · passive | tis | the King Marsilas nsubj:pass; that nsubj; merchandise of us xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Marsilas | with our swords; our nmod:poss; verily property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pay | shall · passive | our swords not said here | Roland | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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