Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 33
This saying pleased the others, and they rode till they saw the King's army.
Who acts: saying, others · What happens: ride, see · To what, where: army
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saying, others), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 saying | det |
| 2 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saying | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 others | det |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 saw | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rode | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 army | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | this saying | others = other nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | others = other | the King's army | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus |
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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