Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 33
After this he saw how a multitude of wild beasts, bears, and leopards, and snakes, and monsters such as griffins rushed upon the host as to devour them.
Who acts: King · What happens: see, rush, devour · To what, where: monsters, griffins
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 (King), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 multitude | det |
| 7 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 how | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 beasts | case |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beasts | amod |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 multitude | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bears | punct |
| 12 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beasts | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leopards | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leopards | cc |
| 15 | leopards | leopard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 snakes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 snakes | cc |
| 18 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 monsters | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 monsters | cc |
| 21 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 24 griffins | case |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 such | fixed |
| 24 | griffins | griffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 monsters | nmod |
| 25 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 griffins | acl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 host | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 host | det |
| 28 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rushed | obl:agent |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 devour | mark |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 devour | mark |
| 31 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 rushed | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 devour | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | King | monsters | after this | such griffins; leopards conj; snakes conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | rush | participle | griffins not said here | the host obl:agent | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | devour | to-infinitive | monsters = monster | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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