Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 81
So Reynaud went into the tent, and took such things as he could find and laid them on the back of Bayard, and carried them to Montalban.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: go, take, find, lay, carry · To what, where: tent, such things, things, back, Montalban
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 tent | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tent | det |
| 6 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 back | det |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Bayard | case |
| 23 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 back | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 carried | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 carried | cc |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carried | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Montalban | case |
| 29 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Reynaud | the tent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Reynaud not said here | such things | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | could | Reynaud | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lay | past | Reynaud not said here | things = thing | the back of Bayard | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 5 | carry | past | Reynaud not said here | things = thing | Montalban | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to montalban=Destination |
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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