Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 55
Then the two rode on, and took a lodging in an inn; where when they bedded their horses, Mawgis took a thread of silk and waxed it well and after bound the fore feet of Bayard.
Who acts: two, lists, Mawgis · What happens: ride on, take, bed, wax, bind · To what, where: lodging, inn, horses, thread, fore feet
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 (two, lists, Mawgis), 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 | 4 rode | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lodging | det |
| 10 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 inn | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 inn | det |
| 13 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bedded | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 bedded | advmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 bedded | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bedded | nsubj |
| 18 | bedded | bed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horses | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bedded | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 22 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thread | det |
| 25 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 silk | case |
| 27 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thread | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 waxed | cc |
| 29 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 waxed | obj |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 waxed | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bound | cc |
| 33 | after | after | ADV | _ | 34 bound | advmod |
| 34 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 waxed | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 feet | det |
| 36 | fore | fore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 feet | amod |
| 37 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 bound | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Bayard | case |
| 39 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 feet | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride on | past | the two | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the two not said here | a lodging | a inn | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lodging=Value in inn=Location | |||
| 3 | bed | past | lists = list | lists's horses | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Mawgis | a thread of silk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wax | past | Mawgis not said here | thread | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 6 | bind | past | Mawgis not said here | the fore feet of Bayard | after property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
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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