Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 64
They made all haste, marching across the mountains and valleys of Spain till they came in sight of the Standard of France, where Roland and Oliver and the Twelve Peers were ranged in battle array.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: make, march, come, range, sight · To what, where: haste, mountains, sight, Roland, battle array, Standard
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 (chiefs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 haste | det |
| 4 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 marching | punct |
| 6 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 mountains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 marching | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 valleys | cc |
| 11 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mountains | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Spain | case |
| 13 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 valleys | nmod |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Standard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Standard | det |
| 21 | Standard | Standard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sight | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 France | case |
| 23 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Standard | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ranged | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 ranged | advmod |
| 26 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 ranged | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Oliver | cc |
| 28 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Roland | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Peers | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Peers | det |
| 31 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 Peers | nummod |
| 32 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 Roland | conj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 ranged | aux:pass |
| 34 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Standard | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 array | case |
| 36 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 array | compound |
| 37 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ranged | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | chiefs = chief | all haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 2 | march | gerund | chiefs = chief not said here | the mountains and valleys of Spain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across mountain=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | chiefs = chief | sight of the Standard of France | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 4 | range | past · passive | Roland and Oliver and the Twelve Peers | battle array | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight | the Standard of France | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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