Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 38
Meanwhile, the King had sent the Duke Naymes, and Ogier the Dane, and another, with a hundred knights to keep the road from Orleans, that none might pass without their knowledge.
Who acts: none · What happens: send, keep, pass · To what, where: King, road, Orleans
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 (none), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Naymes | det |
| 8 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Naymes | compound |
| 9 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ogier | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Ogier | cc |
| 12 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Naymes | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dane | det |
| 14 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ogier | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 another | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 another | cc |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 sent | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knights | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 knights | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hundred | det |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 knights | nummod |
| 22 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Orleans | case |
| 28 | Orleans | Orleans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pass | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 pass | mark |
| 31 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 33 pass | nsubj |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 pass | aux |
| 33 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 keep | conj |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 knowledge | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 36 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pass | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · perfect · passive | the King | with hundred knights; the Duke Naymes and Ogier obj; meanwhile property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination naymes=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | the road | Orleans | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer road=Beneficiary from orleans=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | pass | might | none | without Reynaud's knowledge | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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