Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 30
So they set forth, having six thousand men on horseback, and one thousand on foot, and before they had gone many hours' journey there came Roland and Oliver and Ogier the Dane, having King John with them, as has been said.
Who acts: knights, many hours · What happens: set, have, go, come, say, journey · To what, where: one thousand, thousand men, horseback, journey, Roland, John · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (knights, many hours), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 having | punct |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 set | advcl |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thousand | nummod |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 men | nummod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 having | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 horseback | case |
| 11 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 having | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thousand | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thousand | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 thousand | compound |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 set | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thousand | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gone | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gone | cc |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 gone | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | aux |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 came | advcl |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hours | amod |
| 25 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 journey | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 hours | case |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gone | obj |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 came | advmod |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 30 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Oliver | cc |
| 32 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Roland | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Ogier | cc |
| 34 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Roland | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Dane | det |
| 36 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 having | punct |
| 38 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 came | advcl |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 John | nmod:desc |
| 40 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 having | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 having | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 said | punct |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 said | mark |
| 45 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 said | aux |
| 46 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 said | aux:pass |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 came | parataxis |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | knights = knight | one thousand on foot | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | knights = knight not said here | thousand men | horseback | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | knights = knight | many hours's journey | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Roland and Oliver and Ogier | there | the Dane obl:unmarked | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roland=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | gerund | John King | with knights = knight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 7 | journey | many hours | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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