Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 146
The good steed bounded forward, and all the men of France cried out, "A brave man is our King; not one of us will fail him."
Who acts: good steed, brave man, one · What happens: bound, cry out, be, fail · To what, where: good steed, King, steed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (good steed, brave man, one), 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 | 3 steed | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steed | amod |
| 3 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 steed | acl |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 bounded | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 men | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 France | case |
| 12 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 King | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 King | punct |
| 17 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 King | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 King | cop |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 King | nmod:poss |
| 22 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 fail | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 one | advmod |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 fail | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nmod |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fail | aux |
| 29 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fail | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 fail | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | participle | the good steed not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the good steed | all men of France nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a brave man | our King | our nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fail in a quote | future | one of us | steed | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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