Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 190
Quickly did they rise to their feet, and drawing their swords, closed fiercely in fight.
Who acts: bands · What happens: rise, draw, close · To what, where: feet, swords
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 (bands), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 rise | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rise | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rise | nsubj |
| 4 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rise | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drawing | cc |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rise | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 swords | nmod:poss |
| 12 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drawing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 closed | punct |
| 14 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 drawing | conj |
| 15 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 14 closed | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fight | case |
| 17 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 closed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · do-support | bands = band | bands's feet | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | draw | gerund | bands = band not said here | bands's swords | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | close | participle | bands = band not said here | in fight; fiercely property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fight=Topic |
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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