Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 165
Behind him followed many heathen knights.
What happens: follow · To what, where: many heathen knights
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: 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obl |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knights | amod |
| 5 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knights | amod |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | many heathen knights | behind Duke | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knight=Theme behind he=Trajectory |
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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