Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 79
As for Ganelon, they lashed his limbs to four horses, so that he was torn into four pieces.
Who acts: blows · What happens: lash, tear · To what, where: limbs, Ganelon, four pieces
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 (blows), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Ganelon | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lashed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ganelon | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lashed | nsubj |
| 6 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lashed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 horses | case |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 horses | nummod |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lashed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 torn | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 torn | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 torn | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 torn | aux:pass |
| 17 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lashed | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 pieces | case |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 pieces | nummod |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 torn | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lash | past | blows = blow | Ganelon's limbs | as Ganelon; to four horses | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient to horse=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | Ganelon | into four pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result |
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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