Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 19
In the end Reynaud and his brothers, with Mawgis their cousin, escaped out of the palace, and mounting their horses fled to Dordogne, the King's knights following hard upon them.
Who acts: mounting, knights · What happens: escape, mount, flee, follow · To what, where: end, horses, Dordogne
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 (mounting, knights), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 escaped | obl |
| 4 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 end | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brothers | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Reynaud | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cousin | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cousin | case |
| 10 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cousin | compound |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 14 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 escaped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fled | cc |
| 21 | mounting | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 fled | csubj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mounting | obj |
| 24 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 escaped | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Dordogne | case |
| 26 | Dordogne | Dordogne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fled | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knights | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 knights | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 King | case |
| 31 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Dordogne | conj |
| 32 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 knights | acl |
| 33 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 following | advmod |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 following | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | in the end and brothers's Mawgis cousin | out the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | mount | gerund | brothers's horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | mounting | Dordogne and the King's knights | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dordogne=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | the King's knights not said here | upon knights = knight; hard property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=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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