Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 102

Then the King and his lords rode forth from Paris, and when they had gone the space of two miles, they met the cart wherein was the body of Prince Lothair.

Who acts: King, sons · What happens: ride, go, meet, be · To what, where: Paris, space, cart, body

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sons), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 rode	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rode	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lords	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lords	nmod:poss
6	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 King	conj
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	7 rode	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Paris	case
10	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rode	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 gone	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 rode	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 space	det
18	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 miles	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 miles	nummod
21	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 space	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 met	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 met	nsubj
24	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rode	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cart	det
26	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 met	obj
27	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	30 body	advmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 body	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 body	det
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 met	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Lothair	case
32	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Lothair	nmod:desc
33	Lothair	Lothair	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 body	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the King and King's lords		Paris	then	forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from paris=Trajectory
2	go	past · perfect	sons = son	the space of two miles				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location space=Theme
3	meet	past	sons = son	the cart				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Co-Agent
4	is a	past		the body			of Lothair Prince; wherein property	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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 102