Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 54
There is a great plain near to the city of Aachen; on this the two champions met to do battle, the one for the good name of Roland and his comrades, the other for Ganelon.
Who acts: great plain · What happens: be, meet, do, name · To what, where: two champions, battle, Roland
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 (great plain), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plain | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plain | amod |
| 5 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 city | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plain | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Aachen | case |
| 11 | Aachen | Aachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 city | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 this | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 is | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 champions | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 champions | nummod |
| 17 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 this | nmod |
| 18 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 champions | acl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 met | xcomp |
| 21 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 battle | appos |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 name | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 name | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 name | amod |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Roland | case |
| 30 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 name | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 comrades | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 33 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 name | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 other | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 other | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 battle | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 Ganelon | case |
| 38 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 other | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a great plain to the city of Aachen | there | this the two champions nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | participle | the two champions not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | battle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | name | Roland | nom name «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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