Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 47
So saying he went near to swoon in the saddle as he sat. Then there befell a strange thing.
What happens: say, go, befall · To what, where: swoon, strange thing · 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: 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 swoon | mark |
| 7 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 saddle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 saddle | det |
| 10 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swoon | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 sat. | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sat. | nsubj |
| 13 | sat. | Saturday | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 14 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 befell | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 befell | expl |
| 16 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 befell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | swoon in the saddle | saturday | Roland nsubj; near property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | befall | past | a strange thing | there | then | 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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