Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 19

Now there had come to the support of Ganelon thirty men of his kindred, of whom the chief was a certain Pinabel.

Who acts: chief · What happens: come, be, support · To what, where: support, certain Pinabel, thirty men

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 (chief), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 come	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 come	expl
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 support	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 support	det
7	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 men	case
9	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thirty	nmod:unmarked
10	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	compound
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 support	nmod
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 kindred	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 kindred	nmod:poss
14	kindred	kindred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whom	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 whom	case
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 kindred	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chief	det
19	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Pinabel	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Pinabel	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Pinabel	det
22	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Pinabel	amod
23	Pinabel	Pinabel	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 whom	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past · perfect			the support of thirty men; there	now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to support=Initial_Location
2	is a	past	the chief	a certain Pinabel			tree rules
3	support			thirty men			nom support «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 19