Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 134
He rode straight at Grandoigne, and these two met in the middle space between the hosts.
Who acts: Roland, two · What happens: ride, meet · To what, where: Grandoigne, middle space
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 (Roland, two), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Grandoigne | case |
| 5 | Grandoigne | Grandoigne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 met | cc |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 two | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rode | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 space | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 space | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 space | compound |
| 14 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 hosts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hosts | det |
| 17 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 space | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Roland | Grandoigne | straight property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | meet | participle | this two | the middle space between the hosts | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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