Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 64
This done, he conveyed himself with more speed than if he had ridden the swiftest of horses to the King's camp, for he was a magician, as has been said.
Who acts: Mawgis · What happens: do, convey, ride, be, say · To what, where: This, Mawgis, camp · 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 (Mawgis), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 conveyed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 conveyed | nsubj |
| 5 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 conveyed | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 speed | case |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 speed | amod |
| 9 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conveyed | obl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 ridden | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 ridden | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ridden | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ridden | aux |
| 14 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 conveyed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 swiftest | det |
| 16 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 ridden | obl:agent |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 horses | case |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swiftest | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 camp | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 camp | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ridden | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 magician | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 magician | case |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 magician | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 magician | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 magician | det |
| 29 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ridden | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 said | mark |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 said | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 said | aux:pass |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ridden | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 conveyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | convey | past | Mawgis | Mawgis | with more speed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | ride a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Mawgis | the King's camp | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to camp=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Mawgis | for a magician | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | Mawgis not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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