Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 43
But even as he spake, they were aware of two men on horseback.
Who acts: Naymes · What happens: be
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 (Naymes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 spake | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 spake | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 spake | case |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spake | nsubj |
| 5 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 aware | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 aware | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 aware | cop |
| 9 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spake | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | nummod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 aware | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 horseback | case |
| 14 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 men | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Naymes | of two men on horseback; aware property | tree rules |
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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