Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 66
Proud was their array as they rode on to battle, spurring their horses that they might speed the more.
Who acts: Proud, men · What happens: be, ride on, battle, spur, speed · To what, where: array, horses, more
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 (Proud, 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 | Proud | Proud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 array | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 array | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 array | nmod:poss |
| 4 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 rode | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 array | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 rode | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 battle | mark |
| 10 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rode | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spurring | punct |
| 12 | spurring | spur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 battle | advcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spurring | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 speed | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 speed | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 speed | aux |
| 18 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spurring | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 more | det |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 speed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 array | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Proud | men's array | men = man nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride on | past | men = man | men's array not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | battle | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spur | gerund | men = man not said here | men's horses | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | speed | might | men = man | the more | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Agent |
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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