Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 16
As for Reynaud, he was borne to the earth, his saddle girths breaking, and Roland's feet were thrust out of the stirrups.
Who acts: saddle girths, feet · What happens: bear, break, be · To what, where: Reynaud, thrust, stirrups
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saddle girths, feet), 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 Reynaud | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 borne | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Reynaud | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 borne | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 borne | aux:pass |
| 7 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borne | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 girths | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 girths | nmod:poss |
| 13 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girths | compound |
| 14 | girths | girth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 earth | conj |
| 15 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 girths | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thrust | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thrust | cc |
| 18 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Roland | case |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thrust | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thrust | cop |
| 22 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borne | obl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 stirrups | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stirrups | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stirrups | det |
| 26 | stirrups | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thrust | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Reynaud | as Reynaud; to the earth and Reynaud's saddle girths | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | Reynaud's saddle girths not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Roland's feet | thrust | the stirrups | tree rules |
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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