Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 1

Reynaud and his brothers, with Mawgis their cousin, came in their riding to Poictiers, where it was told them that John, King of Gascony was hard pressed by the Saracens.

Who acts: Reynaud, Saracens · What happens: come, tell, press, ride · To what, where: Poictiers, riding, Reynaud, John · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, Saracens), 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	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 brothers	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brothers	nmod:poss
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reynaud	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cousin	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 cousin	case
7	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cousin	compound
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cousin	nmod:poss
9	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reynaud	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Reynaud	punct
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 riding	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 riding	nmod:poss
14	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Poictiers	case
16	Poictiers	Poictier	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 told	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	aux:pass
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 came	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 pressed	mark
24	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 pressed	nsubj:pass
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 John	punct
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 John	flat
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Gascony	case
28	Gascony	Gascony	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 John	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pressed	aux:pass
30	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 pressed	advmod
31	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 told	ccomp
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 Saracens	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Saracens	det
34	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pressed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Reynaud and his brothers		Poictiers	Reynaud's riding		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to poictier=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		riding	Reynaud			tree rules
3	press	past · passive	the Saracens	John of Gascony			hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent subject=Result
4	ride		Reynaud					nom riding «act transitive»: 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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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 1