Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 40

Therefore I pronounce sentence of death upon him, that he be hanged by the heels till he die, and that they throw his carcase to the dogs.

Who acts: I, heels, Ganelon · What happens: pronounce, hange, die, throw, sentence · To what, where: sentence, Ganelon, carcase, dogs, death

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 (I, heels, Ganelon), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 pronounce	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pronounce	nsubj
3	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pronounce	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 death	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sentence	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pronounce	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hanged	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 hanged	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hanged	nsubj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 hanged	aux:pass
13	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pronounce	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 heels	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heels	det
16	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hanged	obl
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 die	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 die	nsubj
19	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hanged	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 throw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 throw	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 throw	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 throw	nsubj
24	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 die	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 carcase	nmod:poss
26	carcase	carcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 throw	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 dogs	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dogs	det
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 throw	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pronounce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pronounce	present	I	sentence of death		upon Ganelon; therefore property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme
2	hange	infinitive · passive	the heels	Ganelon			tree rules
3	die	present	Ganelon				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	throw	present	heels = heel	Ganelon's carcase	the dogs		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent carcase=Theme to dog=Destination
5	sentence			death			nom sentence «communication 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 40