Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 32
And when Mawgis and his knights came forth from the wood where they lay in ambush, and assailed the King's host on the flank, then the Frenchmen fled, not without great loss, especially at the crossing of the river.
Who acts: Mawgis, knights, Frenchmen · What happens: come, lay, assail, flee, cross · To what, where: wood, ambush, host, flank, great loss, crossing
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 (Mawgis, knights, Frenchmen), 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 | _ | 19 assailed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 3 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knights | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knights | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Mawgis | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 assailed | advcl |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wood | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ambush | case |
| 16 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assailed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 assailed | cc |
| 19 | assailed | assail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 host | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assailed | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 flank | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flank | det |
| 26 | flank | flank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assailed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fled | punct |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 fled | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Frenchmen | det |
| 30 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 fled | nsubj |
| 31 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 assailed | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 loss | punct |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 loss | advmod |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 loss | case |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 loss | amod |
| 36 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fled | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 crossing | punct |
| 38 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 41 crossing | advmod |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 crossing | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 crossing | det |
| 41 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 loss | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 river | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 river | det |
| 44 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 crossing | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 assailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Mawgis and Mawgis's knights | the wood | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lay | present | knights = knight | ambush | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ambush=Destination | ||||
| 3 | assail | past | the King's host | the flank | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Patient | ||||
| 4 | flee | past | the Frenchmen | great loss | the crossing of the river | then | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme loss=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | cross | the river | nom crossing «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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