Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 78
Then the King rode away, nor had he travelled long when Roland and Oliver, with a thousand men after them, met him.
Who acts: King, Roland · What happens: ride away, have, travel, meet · To what, where: King
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 (King, Roland), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rode | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 travelled | nsubj |
| 10 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | ccomp |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 travelled | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 met | advmod |
| 13 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 met | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Oliver | cc |
| 15 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Roland | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 men | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thousand | det |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 men | nummod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Roland | appos |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 men | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 met | punct |
| 24 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 travelled | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 met | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away | past | the King | then | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | the King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | King | long property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | Roland and Oliver | King | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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