Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 204
So soon as the heathen saw that their leader was slain they fled in hot haste, and the men of France pursued them even to the walls of Saragossa.
Who acts: heathen, danger, men · What happens: see, slay, flee, pursue · To what, where: leader, hot haste, danger, walls
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 (heathen, danger, men), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heathen | det |
| 5 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 slain | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 leader | nmod:poss |
| 9 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slain | aux:pass |
| 11 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fled | advcl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fled | nsubj |
| 13 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 haste | case |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 haste | amod |
| 16 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pursued | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pursued | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pursued | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 France | case |
| 22 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 men | nmod |
| 23 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pursued | obj |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 walls | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 walls | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 walls | det |
| 28 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pursued | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Saragossa | case |
| 30 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 walls | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the heathen | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | slay | past · passive | danger's leader | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | danger | hot haste | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pursue | past | the men of France | danger | the walls of Saragossa | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wall=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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