Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 66
And the two knights went with him, but Bayard having his foot bound halted much.
Who acts: two knights, Bayard · What happens: go, have, halt · To what, where: foot
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 knights, Bayard), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knights | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 knights | nummod |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 having | cc |
| 10 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 having | nsubj |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 halted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | bound | bind | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 halted | aux:pass |
| 15 | halted | halt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 having | xcomp |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 halted | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the two knights | with King | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Bayard | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | halt | past · passive | King's foot | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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