Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 156
Fiercely did they ride forward, and the battle raged over the plain.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: ride, rage · To what, where: battle, plain
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 (chiefs), 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 | Fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 4 ride | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ride | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ride | nsubj |
| 4 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 ride | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 battle | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 battle | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 battle | det |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ride | obl |
| 10 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 battle | acl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 plain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plain | det |
| 13 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raged | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · do-support | chiefs = chief | the battle | fiercely, forward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rage | participle | the battle not said here | the plain | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over plain=Location |
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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