Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 49
So saying, he rode on to the pass, mounted on his good steed Veillantif.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: say, ride on, mount · To what, where: pass, good steed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Roland), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rode | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rode | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 pass | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pass | det |
| 9 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pass | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 steed | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 steed | nmod:poss |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 steed | amod |
| 15 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | obl |
| 16 | Veillantif | Veillantif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 steed | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Roland not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride on | past | Roland | the pass | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to pass=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | mount | participle | the pass not said here | Roland's good steed | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on steed=Destination |
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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