Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 25
So Roland went with twenty thousand men well armed and fell upon the Saracens, and took from them spoils and prisoners, and overcame their King in single combat, bringing him back to Paris and delivering him to the King.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: go, fall, take, spoil, overcome, bring · To what, where: Saracens, King
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 (Roland), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 5 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thousand | compound |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 armed | advmod |
| 9 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 Saracens | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Saracens | det |
| 14 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spoils | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obl |
| 20 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 prisoners | cc |
| 22 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spoils | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 overcame | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 overcame | cc |
| 25 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 King | nmod:poss |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 overcame | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 combat | case |
| 29 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 combat | amod |
| 30 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overcame | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bringing | punct |
| 32 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 overcame | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bringing | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 bringing | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Paris | case |
| 36 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 back | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 delivering | cc |
| 38 | delivering | deliver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 bringing | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 delivering | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 King | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 King | det |
| 42 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 delivering | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Roland | with thousand men | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Roland not said here | the Saracens | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon saracen=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | from Saracens = saracen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from they=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | spoil | present | prisoners conj | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | overcome | past | Roland not said here | Saracens's King | in single combat | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot king=Theme in combat=Attribute | |||
| 6 | bring | gerund | Roland not said here | King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 7 | deliver | gerund | Roland not said here | King | the King | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination |
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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