Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 49
Thereupon thirty kinsmen of the Count offered themselves.
Who acts: thirty kinsmen · What happens: offer · To what, where: hostages
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 (thirty kinsmen), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 7 offered | advmod |
| 2 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kinsmen | nummod |
| 3 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 offered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Count | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Count | det |
| 6 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kinsmen | nmod |
| 7 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 offered | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | thirty kinsmen of the Count | hostages = hostage | thereupon property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent themselves=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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