Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 86
Then he took the Saracen's horse by the bridle and rode down to the river's bank.
Who acts: Richard · What happens: take, ride down · To what, where: horse, bank
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 (Richard), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Saracen | det |
| 5 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Saracen | case |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 bridle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bridle | det |
| 10 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 rode | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bank | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bank | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 river | case |
| 18 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Richard | the Saracen's horse | then | by the bridle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||
| 2 | ride down | past | Richard not said here | the river's bank | down property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to bank=Trajectory |
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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