Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 105

Great was Reynaud's joy to see him; while he was yet a long way off he knew him, not so much for himself as for the horse Bayard on which he rode.

Who acts: Mawgis · What happens: be, see, know, ride · To what, where: Great joy, Mawgis, long way, way

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joy	amod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joy	cop
3	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 joy	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Reynaud	case
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 joy	acl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 way	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 way	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 way	cop
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	16 way	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joy	appos
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 knew	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 way	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 himself	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 much	advmod
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	26 himself	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 himself	case
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 knew	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	30 horse	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 horse	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knew	obl
31	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 horse	appos
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 rode	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rode	nsubj
35	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 horse	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Reynaud's Great joy	Reynaud nmod:poss	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		Mawgis		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	is a	past	Mawgis	a long way		tree rules
4	know	past	Mawgis	way	for Mawgis; for the horse	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	ride	past	Mawgis		on the horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 105