Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 83
So Oliver rode with his knights, and when he was come to the river, he found Reynaud on foot and Bayard his horse so far from him that he could not mount him; so he was taken unawares.
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: ride, come, find, not mount, take · To what, where: horse, Oliver, Reynaud, foot
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (Oliver), 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 rode | advmod |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 knights | case |
| 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 rode | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 come | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux:pass |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rode | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 19 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 foot | case |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Bayard | cc |
| 23 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 horse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 far | advmod |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rode | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 mount | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 mount | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 mount | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 mount | advmod |
| 34 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rode | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 mount | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 taken | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 taken | advmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 taken | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 taken | aux:pass |
| 40 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rode | conj |
| 41 | unawares | unaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 taken | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Oliver | Oliver's horse | with Oliver's knights; from Reynaud; Bayard conj; far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from he=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past · passive | Oliver | to the river | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Oliver | Reynaud | foot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reynaud=Topic | |||
| 4 | not mount | could | Oliver | Reynaud | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | take | past · passive | Oliver | unawares obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme unaware=Destination |
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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