Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 118
The next that rode forth was the Emir Valdabrun, the same that had given to Ganelon the sword.
Who acts: next · What happens: ride, be, give · To what, where: Emir Valdabrun, that, Ganelon
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 next | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Valdabrun | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Valdabrun | det |
| 8 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Valdabrun | compound |
| 9 | Valdabrun | Valdabrun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 same | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Valdabrun | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 same | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Ganelon | case |
| 17 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sword | det |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the next | that nsubj; forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Emir Valdabrun | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | that | Ganelon | the sword obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient sword=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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