Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 62
King Almaris, with a great host of heathen, coming by an unknown way, fell upon the rear of the host where there was another pass.
Who acts: great host, King · What happens: come, fall · To what, where: rear
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 (great host, King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | Almaris | Almaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 host | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 host | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 host | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 host | amod |
| 7 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 King | list |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heathen | case |
| 9 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 host | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 host | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 King | punct |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 rear | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rear | det |
| 20 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 host | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 host | det |
| 23 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rear | nmod |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 was | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 host | acl:relcl |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 pass | det |
| 28 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | a great host of heathen not said here | by a unknown way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | King with a great host of heathen | the rear of the host | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon rear=Location |
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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