Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 96
So the King abode where he was on the hilltop, but Grandoigne descended into the plain, having his banner carried before him. "
Who acts: King abode, Grandoigne, banner · What happens: be, descend, have, carry · To what, where: hilltop, plain
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 (King abode, Grandoigne, banner), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 hilltop | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 abode | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 abode | compound |
| 4 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hilltop | nsubj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 hilltop | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hilltop | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hilltop | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hilltop | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hilltop | det |
| 10 | hilltop | hilltop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 descended | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 descended | cc |
| 13 | Grandoigne | Grandoigne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 descended | nsubj |
| 14 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hilltop | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 plain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plain | det |
| 17 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 descended | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 having | punct |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 descended | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 banner | nmod:poss |
| 21 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 having | parataxis |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hilltop | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hilltop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King abode | the hilltop | power nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | descend | past | Grandoigne | the plain | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into plain=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | carry | past | power's banner | before power | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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