Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 47

Then the Duke, leaving his own horse, took King Clarion's for himself; never before had he ridden such a horse, so strong was it and so swift.

Who acts: Duke · What happens: leave, take, have, ride, be, swift · To what, where: own horse, King Clarion, horse, shore

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 (Duke), 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 Duke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duke	det
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Duke	punct
5	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 took	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaving	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leaving	punct
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Clarion	compound
12	Clarion	Clarion	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Clarion	case
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 took	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 before	advmod
18	before	before	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ridden	nsubj
21	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 had	xcomp
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 horse	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ridden	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 strong	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 strong	advmod
27	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 had	parataxis
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 it	cop
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 strong	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 swift	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 swift	advmod
32	swift	swift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 strong	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	the Duke not said here	Duke's own horse			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	take	past	the Duke	King Clarion		for Duke	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent clarion=Theme for himself=Beneficiary
3	have	past	the Duke not said here		never	before property	tree rules
4	ride	participle	Duke	such horse			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5	is a	past		shore			tree rules
6	swift	infinitive	the Duke not said here				tree rules

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 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 47