Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 26
At the end of this time, the Admiral having gone a-hunting, and the watch of the bridge being negligently kept, the knights mounted their horses and issued forth.
Who acts: Admiral, knights · What happens: go, keep, mount, issue · To what, where: hunting, end, watch, horses
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 (Admiral, knights), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Admiral | det |
| 9 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 gone | aux |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hunting | det |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 a | punct |
| 14 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kept | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kept | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 watch | det |
| 18 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bridge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bridge | det |
| 21 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watch | nmod |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 kept | aux:pass |
| 23 | negligently | negligently | ADV | _ | 24 kept | advmod |
| 24 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gone | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mounted | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 knights | det |
| 27 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mounted | nsubj |
| 28 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 kept | parataxis |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 horses | nmod:poss |
| 30 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mounted | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 issued | cc |
| 32 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 mounted | conj |
| 33 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 32 issued | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund · perfect | the Admiral | a hunting | at the end of this time | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund · passive | the watch of the bridge | negligently property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | the knights | knights's horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | issue | participle | the knights not said here | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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