Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 126

Then he leapt on Bayard's back, and made all haste to deliver Richard, Mawgis and Alard and Guichard following him with all the speed they could use.

Who acts: Richard, haste, gallows · What happens: leapt, make, deliver, follow, use · To what, where: back, haste, Richard, speed

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard, haste, gallows), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leapt	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leapt	nsubj
3	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
5	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Bayard	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leapt	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leapt	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 haste	det
12	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 deliver	mark
14	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
15	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 deliver	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Mawgis	punct
17	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Richard	flat
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Alard	cc
19	Alard	Alard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Richard	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Guichard	cc
21	Guichard	Guichard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Richard	conj
22	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 deliver	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 following	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 speed	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 speed	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 speed	det
27	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 following	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 use	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 use	aux
30	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 speed	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leapt	past	Richard		Bayard's back	then		tree rules
2	make	past	Richard not said here	all haste				tree rules
3	deliver	to-infinitive	all haste not said here	Richard and Alard and Guichard				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent richard=Patient
4	follow	gerund	all haste not said here	Richard			with all speed	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	use	could	gallows	all speed not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 126

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 126