Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 15
Did he not bring it about that I was sent on an embassy to King Marsilas?
Who acts: nephew · What happens: not bring, send · To what, where: hatred, I, embassy
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 (nephew), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bring | advmod |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 sent | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 sent | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux:pass |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bring | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 embassy | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 embassy | det |
| 13 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Marsilas | case |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Marsilas | compound |
| 16 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 embassy | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | past · do-support | nephew | hatred | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | I | a embassy to King Marsilas | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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