Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 127
When Ogier perceived them, he had no choice but to mount on his horse and flee.
Who acts: Ogier · What happens: perceive, have, mount, flee · To what, where: hands, choice
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 perceived | advmod |
| 2 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perceived | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 choice | det |
| 9 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 mount | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 mount | mark |
| 12 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mount | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flee | cc |
| 17 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 mount | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Ogier | hands = hand | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Ogier | no choice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mount | to-infinitive | Ogier not said here | on Ogier's horse | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horse=Destination | ||||
| 4 | flee | infinitive | Ogier not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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