Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 75
Reynaud, having prevailed in the race, took the crown of gold, but the silver and the silk he disdained.
Who acts: Reynaud, silver · What happens: prevail, take, disdain, crown · To what, where: Reynaud, race, crown, gold
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 (Reynaud, silver), 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 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prevailed | punct |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 prevailed | aux |
| 4 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Reynaud | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 race | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 race | det |
| 7 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prevailed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Reynaud | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crown | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 disdained | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 disdained | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 silver | det |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disdained | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 silk | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 silk | det |
| 20 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 silver | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 disdained | nsubj |
| 22 | disdained | disdain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | gerund · perfect | Reynaud not said here | the race | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Reynaud | the crown of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disdain | past | the silver and the silk | horse nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | crown | gold | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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