Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 15
It fell on a certain day that Roland, seeing that there were many birds by the river, was minded to go hawking.
Who acts: place · What happens: fall, see, be, go, hawk · To what, where: many birds
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 (place), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 Roland | mark |
| 8 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 day | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeing | punct |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fell | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 were | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 birds | cop |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 birds | amod |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seeing | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 river | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seeing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 minded | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 minded | cop |
| 21 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 minded | xcomp |
| 24 | hawking | hawk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 go | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | place | day | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | place not said here | by the river | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | many birds | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | place not said here | minded property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | place not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | hawk | gerund | place not said here | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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