Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 90
Alard and Guichard were in the vanguard with a hundred knights, and Reynaud and Richard brought up the rear with all the rest of their folk.
Who acts: Alard, Reynaud · What happens: be, bring up · To what, where: vanguard, rear
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 (Alard, Reynaud), 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 | Alard | Alard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 vanguard | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Guichard | cc |
| 3 | Guichard | Guichard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alard | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanguard | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vanguard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vanguard | det |
| 7 | vanguard | vanguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 knights | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 knights | nummod |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vanguard | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brought | cc |
| 14 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Richard | cc |
| 16 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Reynaud | conj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanguard | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 brought | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rear | det |
| 20 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 rest | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 rest | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rest | det |
| 24 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 folk | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 folk | nmod:poss |
| 27 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rest | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vanguard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Alard and Guichard | the vanguard | with hundred knights | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring up | past | Reynaud and Richard | the rear | with all rest of knights's folk | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rear=Patient with rest=Instrument |
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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