Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 28
So they two strove together for so long a time as a man might take for the running of a mile.
Who acts: horses, man, mile · What happens: strive, take, run
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 (horses, man, mile), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 strove | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strove | nsubj |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 they | appos |
| 4 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 strove | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strove | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strove | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 running | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 running | det |
| 18 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mile | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mile | det |
| 21 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 running | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | past | horses = horse | time | together property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | might | a man | for the running of a mile | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for running=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | run | a mile | nom running «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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