Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 14
So saying he charged the enemy, and on the other side King Marsilas came out to meet him.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: say, charge, come out, meet · To what, where: enemy, other side, Roland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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 | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 charged | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 charged | nsubj |
| 4 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 enemy | det |
| 6 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charged | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 side | appos |
| 14 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charged | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 meet | mark |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 came | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 meet | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Roland not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | charge | past | Roland | the enemy | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location enemy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | Roland not said here | the other side | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Roland not said here | Roland | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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