Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 17
Then Reynaud rising quickly from the ground smote Roland a mighty blow with his sword, so that he scarce knew where he was.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: rise, smite, scarce, know, be · To what, where: ground, Roland · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Reynaud), 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 | 2 Reynaud | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | nsubj |
| 3 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Reynaud | acl |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 rising | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rising | obl |
| 8 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blow | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blow | amod |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sword | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sword | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blow | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scarce | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 scarce | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 scarce | nsubj |
| 20 | scarce | scarce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 smote | parataxis |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 scarce | conj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 was | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 was | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | Reynaud not said here | the ground | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | smite | past | Reynaud | Roland | a mighty blow obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus roland=Experiencer blow=Result | |||
| 3 | scarce | past | Reynaud | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | past | Reynaud not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | past | Reynaud | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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