Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 14
At tournaments knights jousted, charging at each other on horseback with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds.
Who acts: knights · What happens: joust, charge, blunt, cheer · To what, where: tournaments, each
This is a sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 tournaments | case |
| 2 | tournaments | tournament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jousted | obl |
| 3 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jousted | nsubj |
| 4 | jousted | joust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 charging | punct |
| 6 | charging | charge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 jousted | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 charging | obl |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 horseback | case |
| 11 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 charging | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 lances | case |
| 13 | blunted | blunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lances | amod |
| 14 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 charging | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lances | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 crowds | case |
| 18 | cheering | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 crowds | amod |
| 19 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 front | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jousted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joust | past | knights | tournaments | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | charge | gerund | knights not said here | each | on horseback; with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | blunt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | cheer | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:14.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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