Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 30
So these two companies both went their way, and in no long while approached one to the other.
Who acts: two companies · What happens: go, approach · To what, where: way, one
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two companies), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 companies | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 companies | nummod |
| 4 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | both | both | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 approached | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 approached | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 while | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 while | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 while | amod |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 approached | obl |
| 15 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 approached | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 other | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this two companies | others's way | both property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 2 | approach | past | this two companies not said here | one | while | to the other | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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