Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 11
Then there charged from the wood a great host of pagans, among whom was a certain Brullant, and another, Sortybrant by name.
What happens: charge, be · To what, where: Sortybrant, wood, certain Brullant
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: 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 | 3 charged | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 charged | advmod |
| 3 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charged | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 host | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 host | amod |
| 9 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charged | obl:agent |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pagans | case |
| 11 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 host | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Brullant | punct |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 Brullant | obl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Brullant | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Brullant | det |
| 17 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Brullant | amod |
| 18 | Brullant | Brullant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 host | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 another | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 another | cc |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 charged | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sortybrant | punct |
| 23 | Sortybrant | Sortybrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 charged | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 name | case |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | participle | Sortybrant | the wood; there | then | by name; a great host of pagans obl:agent | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wood=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | is a | past | a certain Brullant | among a great host of pagans | 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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