Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 28
So Charlot rode forth and held the way by which the two brothers must pass.
Who acts: Charlot, two brothers · What happens: ride, hold, pass · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charlot, two brothers), 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 | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | Charlot | Charlot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 held | cc |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 pass | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brothers | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 brothers | nummod |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pass | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 pass | aux |
| 15 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Charlot | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Charlot not said here | the way | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | must | the two brothers | by the way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by which=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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