Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 19
Then did these two champions lay their spears in rest and make ready to charge.
Who acts: two champions · What happens: lay, make, charge · To what, where: spears, rest
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two champions), 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 | 6 lay | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | aux |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 champions | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 champions | nummod |
| 5 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lay | conj |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 charge | mark |
| 15 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ready | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · do-support | this two champions | champions's spears | rest | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme in rest=Destination | ||
| 2 | make | infinitive | this two champions not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | charge | to-infinitive | this two champions not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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