Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 88
When he was mounted on him he seemed such a knight as could scarce be matched in France or any other land.
Who acts: horse · What happens: mount, seem, match · To what, where: horse, knight, France
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 (horse), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | aux:pass |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seemed | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mounted | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 knight | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 matched | mark |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 matched | aux |
| 14 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 matched | compound |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 matched | aux:pass |
| 16 | matched | match | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 France | case |
| 18 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 matched | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 land | cc |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 land | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 land | amod |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 France | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | horse | on Alexander | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | horse | such knight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | match | could · passive | horse not said here | France or any other land | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
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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