Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 36
Nor was it long before the pursuers came up with him, King Clarion leading them.
Who acts: Nor, pursuers · What happens: be, come up, lead · To what, where: pursuers
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 (Nor, pursuers), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pursuers | det |
| 7 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 long | vocative |
| 14 | Clarion | Clarion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 long | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leading | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nor | King vocative; multitude nsubj; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | the pursuers | with Nor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | Nor not said here | pursuers = pursuer | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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