Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 1
The Saracens that had charge of Oliver and the other knights did not halt till they came to a rich city, Aygremore by name.
Who acts: Saracens, other knights, knights · What happens: have, not halt, come, charge · To what, where: charge, rich city, Oliver
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracens, other knights, knights), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Saracens | det |
| 2 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Oliver | case |
| 7 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 charge | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 halt | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knights | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knights | amod |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 halt | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 halt | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 halt | advmod |
| 14 | halt | halt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | conj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 halt | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 20 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 city | amod |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Aygremore | punct |
| 23 | Aygremore | Aygremore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 city | appos |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 name | case |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Aygremore | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Saracens | charge of Oliver | that nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient | |||
| 2 | not halt | past · do-support | the other knights | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | past | knights = knight | a rich city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | charge | Oliver | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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