Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 10
Oliver was ill-content with these words; nevertheless he took the giant and laid him across the saddle of his horse, and went his way.
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: be, take, lay, go · To what, where: ill content, giant, Oliver, saddle, way
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver), 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 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 content | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | cop |
| 3 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 content | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ill | punct |
| 5 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 content | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 12 took | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laid | cc |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laid | obj |
| 18 | across | across | ADP | _ | 20 saddle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 saddle | det |
| 20 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saddle | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 way | nmod:poss |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Oliver | ill content | with this words | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | Oliver | the giant | nevertheless property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | |||
| 3 | lay | past | Oliver not said here | Oliver | the saddle of Oliver's horse | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | |||
| 4 | go | past | Oliver not said here | Oliver's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/18/10/