Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 133
Then the Emir set his battle in array, so that the two hosts stood over against each other.
Who acts: Emir, two hosts · What happens: set, stand over, battle · To what, where: battle, array, each
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emir, two hosts), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emir | det |
| 3 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 battle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 array | case |
| 8 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 stood | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hosts | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hosts | nummod |
| 14 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 stood | advmod |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 15 stood | obl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the Emir | Emir's battle | array | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent battle=Theme in array=Destination | ||
| 2 | stand over | past | the two hosts | each | over property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against each=Location | |||
| 3 | battle | Emir | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=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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