Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 57
And as he spake, the two hosts came together.
Who acts: two hosts · What happens: come together
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 (two hosts), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 spake | case |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spake | nsubj |
| 4 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spake | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hosts | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hosts | nummod |
| 8 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past | the two hosts | as spake King; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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