Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 117
These things so wrought upon him that he mounted his horse and swam back across the river.
Who acts: Ogier · What happens: mount, swim back · To what, where: horse, river
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), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrought | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 wrought | advmod |
| 4 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrought | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 mounted | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mounted | nsubj |
| 9 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrought | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounted | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swam | cc |
| 13 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mounted | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 swam | advmod |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 river | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swam | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Ogier | Ogier's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swim back | past | Ogier not said here | the river | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory |
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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