Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 24
A great company from many regions were gathered together to the King at Aachen; men from Saxony and from Bavaria, and from Poitou, Normans, and French, and Germans from beyond the Rhine.
What happens: gather · To what, where: great company, Poitou
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 company | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 company | amod |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 regions | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 regions | amod |
| 6 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 company | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gathered | aux:pass |
| 8 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 gathered | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gathered | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Aachen | case |
| 14 | Aachen | Aachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 men | punct |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathered | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Saxony | case |
| 18 | Saxony | Saxony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 men | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Bavaria | cc |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Bavaria | case |
| 21 | Bavaria | Bavaria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Saxony | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Poitou | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Poitou | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Poitou | case |
| 25 | Poitou | Poitou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gathered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Normans | punct |
| 27 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Poitou | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 French | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 French | cc |
| 30 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Poitou | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Germans | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Germans | cc |
| 33 | Germans | German | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Poitou | list |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 Rhine | case |
| 35 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 37 Rhine | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Rhine | det |
| 37 | Rhine | Rhine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Germans | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · passive | a great company from many regions | Poitou Germans from the Rhine and Normans and French | to the King at Aachen; men from Saxony and Bavaria obl; together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from poitou=Source |
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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