Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 16
So he went with Oliver his comrade (this Oliver was a very noble knight, and a close friend to Roland) and a company of knights, the bravest of the host.
Who acts: King, Oliver · What happens: go, be · To what, where: comrade, noble knight
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 (King, Oliver), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Oliver | case |
| 5 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 7 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 knight | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Oliver | det |
| 10 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 knight | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 knight | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 knight | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 noble | advmod |
| 14 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knight | amod |
| 15 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comrade | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friend | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 friend | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 friend | det |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friend | amod |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knight | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Roland | case |
| 22 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 friend | nmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 knight | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 company | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 company | det |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comrade | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 knights | case |
| 28 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 company | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bravest | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bravest | det |
| 31 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 went | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 host | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 host | det |
| 34 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bravest | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | King | King's comrade and a company of knights | with Oliver; the bravest of the host obl | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with oliver=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this Oliver | a noble knight and a close friend to Roland | a close friend to Roland conj | 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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