Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 60
It was an ill deed that the traitor Ganelon wrought when he sold his fellows to King Marsilas!
Who acts: battle, Ganelon · What happens: be, sell · To what, where: ill deed, fellows, King Marsilas
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, Ganelon), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deed | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deed | det |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deed | amod |
| 5 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wrought | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 traitor | det |
| 8 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrought | nsubj |
| 9 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 traitor | appos |
| 10 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deed | acl:relcl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 sold | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sold | nsubj |
| 13 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wrought | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sold | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Marsilas | case |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Marsilas | compound |
| 18 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sold | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 deed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | battle | a ill deed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sell | past | Ganelon | Ganelon's fellows | King Marsilas | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme to marsilas=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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