Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 12
But Roland and Oliver stood over with their shields and stopped the way.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: stand over, stop · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Oliver | cc |
| 4 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Roland | conj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 shields | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shields | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand over | past | Roland and Oliver | with Roland's shields; over property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Roland and Oliver not said here | the way | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality way=Eventuality |
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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