Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 15
With so great a shock did they come together, that their spears were broken to pieces.
Who acts: words · What happens: come together, break · To what, where: spears
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 shock | case |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 great | advmod |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shock | amod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shock | det |
| 5 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 broken | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 broken | mark |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 broken | aux:pass |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 come | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 broken | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past · do-support | words = word | with a great shock; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past · passive | words's spears | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result |
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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