Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 49
Mighty were their shields, and their lances strong, and the flags that they carried were white and red and blue.
Who acts: Mighty, flags · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: shields, flags
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 (Mighty, flags), 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 | Mighty | Mighty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shields | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shields | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shields | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 strong | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strong | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lances | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strong | nsubj |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shields | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 white | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 white | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flags | det |
| 13 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 white | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carried | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flags | acl:relcl |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 white | cop |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 strong | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 red | cc |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 white | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blue | cc |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 white | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shields | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mighty | men's shields | men = man nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | past | flags = flag | the flags | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the flags | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the flags not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | the flags 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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