Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 65
After mass the King and his lords went down to a certain meadow that is by the river Seine, where the race should be run.
Who acts: King, that · What happens: go down, be, run · To what, where: race
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 (King, that), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 mass | case |
| 2 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lords | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lords | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 King | conj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 meadow | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 meadow | det |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 meadow | amod |
| 13 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 Seine | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Seine | cop |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Seine | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Seine | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Seine | compound |
| 19 | Seine | Seine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 meadow | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 run | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 run | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 race | det |
| 23 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 run | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 run | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 run | aux:pass |
| 26 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Seine | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the King and King's lords | after mass | to a certain meadow; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | by the river Seine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | should · passive | the race | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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