Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 107
So the knight rode with all speed, and when he had overtaken the Peers he delivered to them the King's message.
Who acts: knight, overtaken Peers · What happens: ride, overtake, deliver · To what, where: message, Reynaud
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, overtaken Peers), 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 rode | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 speed | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 speed | det |
| 7 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 overtaken | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 overtaken | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 overtaken | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 overtaken | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overtaken | aux |
| 13 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Peers | amod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Peers | det |
| 15 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 delivered | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delivered | nsubj |
| 17 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delivered | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 message | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 delivered | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the knight | with all speed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past · perfect | knight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deliver | past | the overtaken Peers | the King's message | Reynaud | knight nsubj | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to they=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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