Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 75
So the two envoys went, carrying, one the gauntlet and the other the staff.
Who acts: two envoys · What happens: go, carry · To what, where: one gauntlet
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 (two envoys), 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 | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 envoys | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 envoys | nummod |
| 4 | envoys | envoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carrying | punct |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gauntlet | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 gauntlet | nummod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gauntlet | det |
| 11 | gauntlet | gauntlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carrying | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 staff | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 staff | amod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 staff | det |
| 16 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gauntlet | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the two envoys | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | the two envoys not said here | the one gauntlet and the other staff | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gauntlet=Theme |
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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