Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 63
Quickly did they come to the land of Spain; nor did they halt till they came to the city of Saragossa.
Who acts: people · What happens: come, halt · To what, where: land, city
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 (people), 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 come | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Spain | case |
| 9 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 land | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 halt | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 halt | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 halt | aux |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 halt | nsubj |
| 14 | halt | halt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 halt | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Saragossa | case |
| 22 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 city | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | people | the land of Spain | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | halt | past · do-support | people | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | past | people | the city of Saragossa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_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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