Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 103
That night the brethren set out, and travelling without stay came to the city of Ardennes.
Who acts: brethren, travelling · What happens: set out, travel, come · To what, where: city
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brethren, travelling), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brethren | det |
| 4 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 9 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 came | csubj |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 stay | case |
| 11 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travelling | obl |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ardennes | case |
| 17 | Ardennes | Ardennes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 city | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | the brethren | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | without stay | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | travelling | the city of Ardennes | 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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