Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 84
Fair was the day and bright the sun, as their armour flashed in the light and the drums were beaten so loudly that the Frenchmen heard the sound.
Who acts: Fair, Frenchmen · What happens: be, flash, beat, hear · To what, where: day, armour, light, drums, sound
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, Frenchmen), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sun | cc |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sun | amod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 armour | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 armour | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 armour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | conj |
| 13 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 armour | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flashed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beaten | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 drums | det |
| 19 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 beaten | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beaten | aux:pass |
| 21 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 flashed | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 loudly | advmod |
| 23 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 21 beaten | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 heard | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Frenchmen | det |
| 26 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 heard | nsubj |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beaten | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sound | det |
| 29 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heard | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fair | the day and the bright sun and champions's armour | the bright sun conj; champions's armour conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flash | participle | champions's armour not said here | the light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | ||||
| 3 | beat | past · passive | the drums | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | the Frenchmen | the sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
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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