Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 106
Swift as a swallow was Bayard, every stride was of thirty feet at the least.
Who acts: stride · What happens: be · To what, where: Swift Bayard
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 (stride), 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 | Swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bayard | compound |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 swallow | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 swallow | det |
| 4 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swift | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Bayard | cop |
| 6 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feet | punct |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 stride | det |
| 9 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feet | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 feet | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Bayard | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 least | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 least | det |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 feet | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bayard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Swift Bayard and thirty feet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | every stride | of thirty feet | tree rules |
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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