Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 53
But when the Saracens came near to the army of the King they left chasing Ganelon.
Who acts: Saracens · What happens: come, leave, chase · To what, where: army, Ganelon
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 (Saracens), 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 | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Saracens | det |
| 4 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | advcl |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 army | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 army | det |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 army | nmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 left | xcomp |
| 16 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 chasing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Saracens | the army of the King | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to army=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | leave | past | Saracens = saracen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | chase | gerund | Saracens = saracen not said here | Ganelon | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ganelon=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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