Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 2
So the judges came as he commanded, and were gathered together on the Feast of St. Silvester, which was the last day of December.
Who acts: judges, King, Silvester · What happens: come, command, gather, be · To what, where: Feast, last day · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (judges, King, Silvester), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 judges | det |
| 3 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 commanded | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 commanded | nsubj |
| 7 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gathered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gathered | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gathered | aux:pass |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 gathered | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Feast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Feast | det |
| 15 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Silvester | case |
| 17 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Silvester | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Silvester | Silvester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Feast | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 day | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 day | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 day | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 day | amod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Silvester | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 December | case |
| 26 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 day | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the judges | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | command | past | King | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gather | past · passive | the judges not said here | the Feast of Silvester St. | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Silvester St. | the last day | december | tree rules |
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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