Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 35
Then Turpin the Archbishop struck spurs into his horse, and rode to a hilltop.
Who acts: Turpin · What happens: strike, ride · To what, where: spurs, hilltop
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turpin), 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 | 5 struck | advmod |
| 2 | Turpin | Turpin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Archbishop | det |
| 4 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Turpin | appos |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 struck | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hilltop | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hilltop | det |
| 15 | hilltop | hilltop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Turpin | spurs | then | into Turpin's horse result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spur=Patient into horse=Result | ||
| 2 | ride | past | Turpin not said here | a hilltop | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hilltop=Trajectory |
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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