Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 1
On the feast of St. Thomas, which is four days before Yule, King Charles rode out of the city of Paris with a great company of princes and nobles.
Who acts: feast, King · What happens: be, ride out · To what, where: four days, city, feast
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 feast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Thomas | case |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Thomas | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 feast | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 days | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 days | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 days | cop |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feast | conj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 Yule | case |
| 13 | Yule | Yule | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 days | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feast | punct |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | nsubj |
| 16 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | flat |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Paris | case |
| 23 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 city | nmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 company | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 company | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 company | amod |
| 27 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 princes | case |
| 29 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 company | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 nobles | cc |
| 31 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 princes | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the feast of Thomas St. and four days | four days | before Yule | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride out | past | King | the city of Paris | the feast of Thomas St. and four days | with a great company of princes and nobles | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
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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