Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 33
The knights from Montalban pursued them for a mile or so, and Mawgis took the golden dragon that was on Roland's tent (for Roland had not yet come back from hawking) and set it on the great tower of Montalban, so that all men might see it.
Who acts: knights, Mawgis, golden dragon, Roland, tent, men · What happens: pursue, take, be, have, not come back, set · To what, where: Frenchmen, golden dragon, tent, hawking, dragon, great tower
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 (knights, Mawgis, golden dragon, Roland), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Montalban | case |
| 4 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knights | nmod |
| 5 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pursued | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 mile | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mile | det |
| 9 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pursued | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 so | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 mile | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pursued | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dragon | amod |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 tent | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tent | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 tent | case |
| 22 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tent | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Roland | case |
| 24 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Roland | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 Roland | case |
| 27 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tent | acl:relcl |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 come | advmod |
| 30 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 come | advmod |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 come | advmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 hawking | case |
| 34 | hawking | hawking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 set | cc |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 come | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 set | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 tower | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 tower | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 tower | amod |
| 42 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Montalban | case |
| 44 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 tower | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 see | punct |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 51 see | advmod |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 see | mark |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 men | det |
| 49 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 see | nsubj |
| 50 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 see | aux |
| 51 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 took | conj |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 see | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the knights from Montalban | Frenchmen = frenchman | for a mile | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | Mawgis | the golden dragon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dragon=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the golden dragon | Roland's tent | Roland nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | past | Roland | Roland's tent not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not come back | infinitive | Roland's tent not said here | hawking | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hawking=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | set | infinitive | Roland's tent not said here | dragon | the great tower of Montalban | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tower=Destination | |||
| 7 | see | might | all men | dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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