Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 50
Then Roland and his fellows armed themselves in great haste, and went forth from the Tower, and mounted their horses.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: arm, go, mount · To what, where: fellows, great haste, Tower, horses
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 armed | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 armed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fellows | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Roland | conj |
| 6 | armed | arm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 armed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 haste | case |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 haste | amod |
| 10 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 armed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 armed | conj |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Tower | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tower | det |
| 17 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mounted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mounted | cc |
| 20 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 armed | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horses | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mounted | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 armed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arm | past | Roland and God's fellows | fellows = fellow | great haste | then | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient | ||
| 2 | go | past | Roland and God's fellows not said here | the Tower | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from tower=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | mount | past | Roland and God's fellows not said here | fellows's horses | 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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