Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 36
So they and their companions rode to meet the vanguard of the King's army.
Who acts: men · What happens: ride, meet · To what, where: vanguard
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 (men), 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 | _ | 6 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 companions | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 companions | nmod:poss |
| 5 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 they | conj |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rode | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vanguard | det |
| 10 | vanguard | vanguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 army | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 army | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vanguard | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | men = man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | the vanguard of the King's army | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanguard=Co-Agent |
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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