Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 2
Good were his arms, and his horse was both swift and strong.
Who acts: horse · What happens: be · To what, where: Good arms
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 (horse), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arms | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arms | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swift | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swift | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swift | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swift | cop |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 11 swift | cc:preconj |
| 11 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 arms | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 strong | cc |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 swift | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ælroth's Good arms | Ælroth = ælroth nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Ælroth's horse | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Ælroth's horse not said here | tree rules |
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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