Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 72
The first that came forth to offer himself for the battle was Fausseron, the King's brother. "
Who acts: battle · What happens: come, offer, be · To what, where: France
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 (battle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 first | acl:relcl |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 offer | mark |
| 7 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 offer | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Fausseron | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 battle | det |
| 11 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Fausseron | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Fausseron | cop |
| 13 | Fausseron | Fausseron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brother | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Fausseron | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 first | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | France | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the battle | for Fausseron and the King's brother; the King's brother conj | 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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