Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 83
Their mules they left with their servants, and, mounting their chargers, so moved forwards.
Who acts: mules · What happens: leave, mount, move · To what, where: chargers
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 (mules), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mules | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 servants | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mounting | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounting | punct |
| 11 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 left | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chargers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chargers | charger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mounting | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moved | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 moved | advmod |
| 16 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 17 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 16 moved | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | champions's mules | with champions's servants; champions = champion nsubj | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with servant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mount | gerund | champions's mules not said here | champions's chargers | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | move | participle | champions's mules not said here | forwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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