Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 20
As for Reynaud he was in no peril, for his horse Bayard was as swift as the wind, but with the others it went hard.
Who acts: Reynaud, Bayard, wind · What happens: be, go · To what, where: peril, horse
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 (Reynaud, Bayard, wind), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 Reynaud | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 Reynaud | case |
| 3 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 peril | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 peril | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 peril | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 peril | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 peril | det |
| 8 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 horse | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peril | conj |
| 13 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 swift | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swift | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 swift | advmod |
| 16 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 wind | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wind | det |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swift | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 others | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 others | det |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 went | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 peril | conj |
| 27 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 peril | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Reynaud | no peril and Reynaud's horse | as Reynaud; Reynaud's horse conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Bayard | Reynaud's horse not said here | as the wind; swift property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | wind | with the others; hard property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with other=Beneficiary |
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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