Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 100
Then he will go back to France, and so going he will leave behind him his rearguard.
Who acts: Rather · What happens: go back, go, leave · To what, where: rearguard
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rather), 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 | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 leave | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | aux |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | parataxis |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rearguard | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rearguard | rearguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | future | Rather | then | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | Rather not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | future | Rather | Rather's rearguard | behind France | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rearguard=Theme behind he=Location |
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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