Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 111
But while he was speaking, Mawgis came upon him, so swift was the horse Bayard, and defied him. "
Who acts: Ogier, Mawgis, swift · What happens: speak, come, be, defy · To what, where: horse, Ogier · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ogier, Mawgis, swift), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 speaking | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 speaking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speaking | aux |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
| 7 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 horse | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 horse | advmod |
| 13 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 horse | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 17 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 defied | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 defied | cc |
| 20 | defied | defy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 defied | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | Ogier | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Mawgis | upon Ogier | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | swift | the horse | Bayard appos | tree rules | |||
| 4 | defy | past | Mawgis not said here | Ogier | 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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