Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 5
Then followed a great battle, and the Saracens fled, whom Reynaud pursued so hotly that all his friends counted him to have been slain.
Who acts: Saracens, Reynaud, friends · What happens: follow, flee, pursue, count, slay · To what, where: great battle, 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 (Saracens, Reynaud, friends), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 followed | advmod |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 battle | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 battle | amod |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Saracens | det |
| 9 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 fled | nsubj |
| 10 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pursued | punct |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 pursued | obj |
| 13 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pursued | nsubj |
| 14 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fled | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 hotly | advmod |
| 16 | hotly | hotly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pursued | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 counted | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 friends | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 counted | nsubj |
| 21 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hotly | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 counted | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 slain | mark |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 slain | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 slain | aux:pass |
| 26 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 counted | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | a great battle | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | the Saracens | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pursue | past | Reynaud | whom obj; hotly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | count | past | King's friends | King | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | slay | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | King's friends not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |
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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