Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 60
But the others were of Roland's opinion; therefore each man took a head of a pagan in his hand, and they went their way.
Who acts: others, man · What happens: be, take, go · To what, where: head, hand, way
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 (others, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 opinion | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 opinion | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opinion | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 opinion | case |
| 6 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Roland | case |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 10 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opinion | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pagan | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pagan | det |
| 18 | pagan | pagan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the others | of Roland's opinion; Roland nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | each man | a head of a pagan | man's hand | therefore property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 3 | go | past | others = other | others's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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