Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 1
The King sent messengers to all parts of his dominions, bidding all the judges learned in the law come to him at his palace at Aachen.
Who acts: King, judges · What happens: send, bid, learn, come · To what, where: messengers, parts, law, King, palace
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment 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 (King, judges), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 parts | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 parts | det |
| 7 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dominions | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 parts | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bidding | punct |
| 12 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 learned | advcl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 judges | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 judges | det |
| 15 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 learned | nsubj |
| 16 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 law | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 law | det |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 learned | obl |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 learned | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 palace | nmod:poss |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Aachen | case |
| 27 | Aachen | Aachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 palace | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | messengers | all parts of King's dominions | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to part=Destination | |||
| 2 | bid | gerund | all judges not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | learn | past | all judges | the law | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | all judges not said here | King | King's palace at Aachen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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