Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 76

He was an old man, and his hair was white, so that it became him to ride first.

Who acts: Naymes, hair · What happens: be, become, ride · To what, where: old man

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 (Naymes, hair), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 white	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 white	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 white	cop
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 became	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 ride	mark
19	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 became	xcomp
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 ride	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Naymes	a old man		tree rules
2	is	past	Naymes's hair		white property	tree rules
3	become	past	hair	a old man not said here	Naymes xcomp	tree rules
4	ride	to-infinitive	hair not said here		first property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 76