Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 122
Roland, in his turn, unhorsed him, but the Saracen was so nimble that forthwith he mounted his horse again.
Who acts: Roland, Saracen, Espoulart · What happens: unhorse, be, mount · To what, where: Espoulart, horse
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, Saracen, Espoulart), 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 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 unhorsed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 turn | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roland | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Roland | punct |
| 7 | unhorsed | unhorse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 unhorsed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nimble | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 nimble | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Saracen | det |
| 12 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 nimble | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nimble | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 nimble | advmod |
| 15 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 unhorsed | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 mounted | mark |
| 17 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 19 mounted | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mounted | nsubj |
| 19 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nimble | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 mounted | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unhorsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unhorse | past | Roland | Espoulart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Saracen | nimble property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | Espoulart | Espoulart's horse | again | forthwith property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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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