Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 27

So soon as they were seen of the Saracens, there was a great blowing of horns and trumpets, and a multitude of men ran together to do battle with the knights.

Who acts: multitude · What happens: see, be, do, battle, blow · To what, where: knights, horns

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 (multitude), 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	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 was	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 seen	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 was	advcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Saracens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Saracens	det
9	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 seen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ran	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 blowing	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 blowing	amod
15	blowing	blowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 horns	case
17	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 blowing	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trumpets	cc
19	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 horns	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 multitude	det
23	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 men	case
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 multitude	nmod
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	together	together	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ran	advcl
30	battle	battle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 do	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 knights	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 knights	det
33	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 battle	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		knights = knight	of the Saracens	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	is	past	a multitude of men		run, together property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	a multitude of men not said here			tree rules
4	battle	infinitive	a multitude of men not said here		with the knights	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with knight=Co-Agent
5	blow			horns and trumpets		nom blowing «process transitive»: of=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 27