Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 50
High were the mountains on either side of the way, and the valleys were gloomy and dark.
Who acts: High mountains · What happens: be · To what, where: High mountains, side
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 (High mountains), 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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mountains | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mountains | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mountains | det |
| 4 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gloomy | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 side | det |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mountains | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gloomy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gloomy | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 valleys | det |
| 14 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gloomy | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gloomy | cop |
| 16 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dark | cc |
| 18 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gloomy | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 gloomy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the High mountains | either side of the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the High mountains | the valleys nsubj; gloomy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the High mountains not said here | tree rules |
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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