Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 122
And the two charged at each other and met with so great a shock that both were thrust from their saddles and fell to the ground.
Who acts: two, that · What happens: charge, meet, be, fall · To what, where: each, thrust, saddles
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 (two, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 charged | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 charged | nsubj |
| 4 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 charged | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 met | cc |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charged | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 shock | case |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shock | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shock | det |
| 14 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 thrust | nsubj |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 thrust | det |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thrust | cop |
| 18 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shock | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 saddles | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 saddles | nmod:poss |
| 21 | saddles | saddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thrust | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | participle | the two | each | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | the two not said here | with a great shock and both thrust | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with shock=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | both thrust | shock's saddles | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fall | past | the two not said here | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
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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