Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 18
And lo! a greyhound came forth from the hall, and ran to him with great bounds.
Who acts: greyhound · What happens: come, run · To what, where: hall, greyhound
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 (greyhound), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 6 came | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lo | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 greyhound | det |
| 5 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bounds | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bounds | amod |
| 18 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ran | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a greyhound | the hall | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | run | past | a greyhound not said here | greyhound | with great bounds | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
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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