Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 6
By this certain of the Peers mounted, Roland being first of all, and after him Ogier the Dane and Oliver.
Who acts: Peers · What happens: mount, be · To what, where: Roland
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 (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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 certain | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 certain | nsubj |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 mounted | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Peers | det |
| 6 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 mounted | nsubj |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Roland | punct |
| 9 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mounted | obj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 first | cop |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 mounted | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 first | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ogier | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Ogier | cc |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 Ogier | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Ogier | nsubj |
| 18 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 certain | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dane | det |
| 20 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ogier | appos |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Oliver | cc |
| 22 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ogier | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the Peers | Roland | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | of all; first property | 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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