Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 33
So Reynaud and his company set out, and when any one would know who they were, they said that they were from Bearn, and that they were journeying to Paris to run their horses in the King's race.
Who acts: one, Reynaud, King · What happens: set out, know, be, say, journey, run · To what, where: Reynaud, Bearn, Paris, horses, race · 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 (one, Reynaud, King), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 company | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 company | nmod:poss |
| 5 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Reynaud | conj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 know | advmod |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 set | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 know | ccomp |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 who | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 who | cop |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 Bearn | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Bearn | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Bearn | cop |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Bearn | case |
| 25 | Bearn | Bearn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 journeying | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 journeying | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 journeying | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 journeying | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 journeying | aux |
| 31 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Paris | case |
| 33 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 journeying | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 run | mark |
| 35 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 journeying | advcl |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 horses | nmod:poss |
| 37 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 run | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 race | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 King | det |
| 40 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 race | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 King | case |
| 42 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 run | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle · passive | Reynaud and Mawgis's company | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | would | any one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Reynaud | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Reynaud | Bearn | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | journey | past · progressive | Reynaud | Paris | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to paris=Destination | ||||
| 7 | run | to-infinitive | Reynaud not said here | Reynaud's horses | the King's race | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in race=Trajectory | |||
| 8 | race | the King | nom race «event 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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