Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 82
Truly it had gone ill with the four brethren that night but for the horse of Alard that woke them out of their sleep.
Who acts: watch, horse, horses · What happens: go, wake, sleep · To what, where: horses, sleep
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 (watch, horse, horses), 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 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 brethren | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brethren | det |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 brethren | nummod |
| 9 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ill | obl |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brethren | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 horse | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 night | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Alard | case |
| 17 | Alard | Alard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 horse | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 woke | nsubj |
| 19 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 horse | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 woke | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 sleep | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sleep | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 woke | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | watch | ill, truly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | the horse of Alard | horses = horse | horses's sleep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | sleep | horses = horse | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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