Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 22
The Archbishop had perceived that the two were at variance, and spurred his horse till he came where they stood. "
Who acts: two, horse, people · What happens: perceive, be, spur, come, stand · To what, where: Archbishop, variance, horse
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, horse, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Archbishop | det |
| 2 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 perceived | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perceived | aux |
| 4 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 variance | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 two | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 variance | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 variance | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 variance | case |
| 10 | variance | variance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perceived | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spurred | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spurred | cc |
| 13 | spurred | spur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perceived | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spurred | obj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spurred | advcl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 stood | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 perceived | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past · perfect · passive | the Archbishop | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the two | variance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spur | past | King's horse | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come | past | horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | people | vn assuming_position-50 «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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