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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 12

When Oliver saw these he struck his spurs into his horse, but the beast was so heavily burdened that he could not go so fast as the enemy pursued.

Who acts: Oliver, beast, enemy · What happens: see, strike, be, not go, pursue, spur · To what, where: these, spurs

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, beast, enemy), 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

advmodnsubjadvclobjnsubjnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccdetnsubjcopadvmodadvmodconjmarknsubjauxadvmodadvcladvmodadvmodmarkdetnsubjadvclpunctrootWhenADVOliverPROPNsawVERBthesePRONhePRONstruckVERBhisPRONspursNOUNintoADPhisPRONhorseNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETbeastNOUNwasAUXsoADVheavilyADVburdenedVERBthatSCONJhePRONcouldAUXnotPARTgoVERBsoADVfastADVasSCONJtheDETenemyNOUNpursuedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 sawadvmod
2OliverOliverPROPNNumber=Sing3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 struckadvcl
4thesethisPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem3 sawobj
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 strucknsubj
6struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 spursnmod:poss
8spursspurNOUNNumber=Plur6 struckobj
9intointoADP_11 horsecase
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 horsenmod:poss
11horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing6 struckobl
12,,PUNCT_19 burdenedpunct
13butbutCCONJ_19 burdenedcc
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 beastdet
15beastbeastNOUNNumber=Sing19 burdenednsubj
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 burdenedcop
17sosoADV_19 burdenedadvmod
18heavilyheavilyADV_19 burdenedadvmod
19burdenedburdenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 struckconj
20thatthatSCONJ_24 gomark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 gonsubj
22couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin24 goaux
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg24 goadvmod
24gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf19 burdenedadvcl
25sosoADV_26 fastadvmod
26fastfastADVDegree=Pos24 goadvmod
27asasSCONJ_30 pursuedmark
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 enemydet
29enemyenemyNOUNNumber=Sing30 pursuednsubj
30pursuedpursueVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 fastadvcl
31..PUNCT_6 struckpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastOliverthesevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2strikepastOliverOliver's spursinto Oliver's horse resultvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spur=Patient into horse=Result
3ispastthe beastburden, heavily propertytree rules
4not gocouldOliverfast propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5pursuepastthe enemyvn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6spurOlivernom spur «communication transitive»: poss=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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