Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 46
After this they mounted their swift steeds, and clad themselves in armour, and made themselves ready for the battle.
Who acts: men · What happens: mount, clad, make · To what, where: swift steeds, men, armour
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 (men), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 mounted | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steeds | compound |
| 7 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mounted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clad | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clad | cc |
| 10 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 clad | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 armour | case |
| 13 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clad | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 battle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 battle | det |
| 21 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ready | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | men = man | men's swift steeds | after this | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | |||
| 2 | clad | past | men = man not said here | men = man | armour | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | past | men = man not said here | men = man | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
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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