Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 41
Wherefore, spurring his horse, he made all haste to help him.
Who acts: King · What happens: spur, make, help · To what, where: horse, haste, King
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 (King), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 spurring | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spurring | punct |
| 3 | spurring | spur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 made | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spurring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spurring | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 haste | det |
| 10 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 help | mark |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 haste | acl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spur | gerund | King not said here | King's horse | wherefore property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | King | all haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | King not said here | all haste not said here | King | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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