Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 14
Meanwhile Brullant, having outstripped his companions, came near, for he rode a horse that was as swift as a greyhound.
Who acts: Brullant, horse · What happens: outstrip, come, ride, be · To what, where: companions, horse
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 (Brullant, horse), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 2 Brullant | advmod |
| 2 | Brullant | Brullant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 outstripped | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 outstripped | aux |
| 5 | outstripped | outstrip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Brullant | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 outstripped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brullant | punct |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rode | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 rode | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rode | nsubj |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 swift | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 swift | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 swift | advmod |
| 20 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | acl:relcl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 greyhound | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 greyhound | det |
| 23 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swift | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outstrip | gerund · perfect | Brullant not said here | Brullant's companions | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot companion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Brullant | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | Brullant | a horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a horse | as a greyhound; swift property | 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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