Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 74
Then they charged the Saracens yet again; Roland being still in the front, and driving the pagans before him, for they flew from him on all sides.
Who acts: Friends, Roland · What happens: charge, be, drive, fly · To what, where: Saracens, front, pagans, sides
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 (Friends, 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 | 3 charged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 charged | nsubj |
| 3 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Saracens | det |
| 5 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 charged | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 again | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 charged | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 front | punct |
| 9 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 front | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 front | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 front | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 front | det |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charged | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 driving | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 driving | cc |
| 17 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 charged | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pagans | det |
| 19 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 driving | obj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 driving | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 flew | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 flew | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charged | conj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flew | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 sides | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 sides | det |
| 30 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 flew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | past | Friends = friend | the Saracens | then; again; yet | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location saracen=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | Roland | the front | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | drive | gerund | Friends = friend not said here | the pagans | before Saracen | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pagan=Theme before he=Destination | |||
| 4 | fly | past | Friends = friend | all sides | from Saracen | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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