Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 52
After the battle with the Saracens Roland and his fellows rested awhile in a meadow that was nigh at hand.
Who acts: meadow · What happens: rest, be · To what, where: meadow, hand
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 (meadow), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rested | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Roland | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Roland | det |
| 6 | Saracens | Saracens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Roland | compound |
| 7 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 battle | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fellows | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Roland | conj |
| 11 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 11 rested | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 meadow | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 meadow | det |
| 15 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rested | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 nigh | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 nigh | cop |
| 18 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meadow | acl:relcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nigh | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | a meadow | after the battle with the Saracens Roland and Roland's fellows | awhile property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | a meadow | hand | nigh 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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