Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 39
He armed himself, therefore, and mounted his horse that was named Gascon, and went his way.
Who acts: Ganelon · What happens: arm, mount, name, go · To what, where: Ganelon, horse, 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 (Ganelon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 armed | nsubj |
| 2 | armed | arm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 armed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 armed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mounted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mounted | cc |
| 8 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 armed | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mounted | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 named | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 named | aux:pass |
| 13 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 horse | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Gascon | gascon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 named | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mounted | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 armed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arm | past | Ganelon | Ganelon | therefore property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | mount | past | Ganelon's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||||
| 3 | name | past · passive | Ganelon's horse | Gascon xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Ganelon's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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