Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 104
These were on their way to the Admiral, but the French knights straightway slew the escort, and drove the beasts into the town.
Who acts: These, knights straightway · What happens: be, slay, drive · To what, where: way, escort, beasts, town
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, knights straightway), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Admiral | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Admiral | det |
| 8 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 way | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slew | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 slew | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 straightway | det |
| 12 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knights | amod |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 straightway | compound |
| 14 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slew | nsubj |
| 15 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 escort | det |
| 17 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slew | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drove | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drove | cc |
| 20 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 slew | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beasts | det |
| 22 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drove | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 town | det |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drove | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | These | Frenchmen's way | to the Admiral; Frenchmen = frenchman nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slay | past | the knights straightway | the escort | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escort=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | the knights straightway not said here | the beasts | the town | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beast=Theme into town=Trajectory |
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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