Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 1

And now King Charles had come on his homeward journey to the city of Volterra (Count Roland had taken it and laid it in ruins three years before).

Who acts: Charles, Count · What happens: come, take, lay, journey · To what, where: homeward journey, city, ruins

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, Count), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 Charles	advmod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Charles	nmod:desc
4	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 journey	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 journey	nmod:poss
9	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 journey	compound
10	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Volterra	case
15	Volterra	Volterra	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 city	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 taken	punct
17	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 taken	nsubj
18	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Count	flat
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	aux
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 Volterra	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taken	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laid	cc
23	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laid	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 ruins	case
26	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 laid	obl
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 before	obl:unmarked
29	before	before	ADV	_	23 laid	advmod
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Charles King		Charles's homeward journey	to the city of Volterra	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
2	take	past · perfect	Count	city			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	lay	past	Count not said here	city	ruins	before property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in ruin=Destination
4	journey		Charles				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 1

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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 1