Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 52
But Ganelon the King handed over to the knaves of his kitchen. "
Who acts: Ganelon · What happens: hand over · To what, where: knaves
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 handed | cc |
| 2 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ganelon | appos |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 handed | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 knaves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knaves | det |
| 9 | knaves | knave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knaves | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand over | past | Ganelon | the knaves of Ganelon's kitchen | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to knave=Destination |
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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