Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 83

And looking about him, he saw how the whole land was covered with multitudes of Saracens, of whom some were now but a little space behind him.

Who acts: God, some · What happens: look, see, cover, be · To what, where: whole land · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (God, some), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 looking	cc
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	advcl
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 looking	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 covered	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 land	amod
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 covered	aux:pass
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 saw	ccomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 multitudes	case
15	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 covered	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Saracens	case
17	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 multitudes	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whom	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 saw	conj
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 now	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 now	cop
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 whom	acl:relcl
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 space	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 space	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 space	amod
27	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 whom	conj
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 space	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	God not said here		about God	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
2	see	past	God		whom a little space behind land conj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cover	past · passive		the whole land	with multitudes of Saracens	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with multitude=Theme
4	is	past	some		now property	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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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 83