Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 76
A mighty army it was, divided into twenty columns, and the trumpets sounded the charge.
Who acts: trumpets · What happens: divide, sound · To what, where: mighty army, twenty columns, charge
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 (trumpets), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 army | det |
| 2 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 army | amod |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 divided | aux:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 divided | punct |
| 7 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 columns | case |
| 9 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 columns | nummod |
| 10 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 divided | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sounded | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trumpets | det |
| 14 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sounded | nsubj |
| 15 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 divided | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 charge | det |
| 17 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sounded | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past · passive | a mighty army | twenty columns | army nsubj:pass | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | sound | past | the trumpets | the charge | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charge=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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