Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 82
So saying he spurred his horse, and rode away, and when he had travelled certain miles, then came Mawgis on his black horse.
Who acts: Bayard, Mawgis · What happens: say, spur, ride away, travell, come · To what, where: horse, certain miles · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bayard, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 spurred | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spurred | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spurred | nsubj |
| 4 | spurred | spur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spurred | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spurred | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 rode | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 travelled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 travelled | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 travelled | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 travelled | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 travelled | aux |
| 16 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 rode | conj |
| 17 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 miles | amod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 travelled | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spurred | conj |
| 22 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 horse | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 horse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 horse | amod |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | spur | past | Bayard's horse | Bayard nsubj | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride away | past | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | travell | past · perfect | Bayard | certain miles | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Mawgis | then | on Bayard's black horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Location |
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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