Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 82
Fair were their shields to view, their lances were from Valentia, their standards were of white, blue, and red.
Who acts: Fair shields, lances · What happens: be, view · To what, where: Fair shields, Valentia
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 (Fair shields, lances), 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 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shields | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shields | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shields | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 blue | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 view | mark |
| 6 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shields | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Valentia | punct |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lances | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Valentia | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Valentia | cop |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Valentia | case |
| 12 | Valentia | Valentia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shields | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 standards | punct |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 standards | nmod:poss |
| 15 | standards | standard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shields | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 blue | cop |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 blue | mark |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blue | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blue | punct |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 red | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 red | cc |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blue | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 blue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | champions's Fair shields and Valentia and champions's standards | champions = champion nmod:poss; champions's standards conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | view | to-infinitive | champions's Fair shields and Valentia and champions's standards not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | champions's lances | Valentia | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | champions's Fair shields and Valentia and champions's standards | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | champions's Fair shields and Valentia and champions's standards 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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