Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 132
So when we shall have gained the first gate, I will blow on my horn, and at this signal you shall ride up with all the speed you may."
Who acts: we, I, you · What happens: gain, blow, ride up · To what, where: first gate, horn, signal
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 gained | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 gained | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 gained | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 gained | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gained | aux |
| 6 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 blow | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 gate | amod |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gained | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 blow | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 blow | aux |
| 13 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 horn | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horn | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blow | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ride | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ride | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 signal | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 signal | det |
| 21 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ride | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 ride | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 ride | aux |
| 24 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blow | advcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 ride | compound:prt |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 speed | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 speed | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 speed | det |
| 29 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ride | obl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 may | nsubj |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 speed | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 blow | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | shall · perfect | we | the first gate | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | future | I | my horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride up | shall | you | this signal | with all speed | 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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