Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 48
For the space of five miles they followed after the Saracens, and still as they followed they slew, but nevertheless they could not come up with Oliver and the rest of the prisoners, so quickly did they who had them in charge carry them away.
Who acts: blows · What happens: follow, slay, not come up, do, have, carry away · To what, where: prisoners, blows, charge
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 (blows), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 space | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 space | det |
| 3 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 miles | case |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 miles | nummod |
| 6 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 space | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 Saracens | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Saracens | det |
| 11 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 followed | cc |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 followed | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 followed | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 followed | conj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slew | nsubj |
| 19 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 followed | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 come | cc |
| 22 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 slew | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 come | compound:prt |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Oliver | case |
| 29 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 rest | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rest | det |
| 32 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Oliver | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 prisoners | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 prisoners | det |
| 35 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rest | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 did | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 did | advmod |
| 38 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 39 did | advmod |
| 39 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 followed | conj |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 had | nsubj |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 had | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 did | advcl |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 had | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 charge | case |
| 45 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 carry | obl |
| 46 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 had | ccomp |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 carry | obj |
| 48 | away | away | ADV | _ | 46 carry | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | blows = blow | after the Saracens | for the space of five miles | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after saracen=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | blows = blow | still | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | past | blows = blow | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not come up | could | blows = blow | with Oliver and the rest of the prisoners; nevertheless property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past | blows = blow not said here | quickly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have | past | blows = blow | prisoners = prisoner | who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | carry away | present | blows = blow not said here | blows = blow | charge | away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in charge=Location |
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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