Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 18
Nevertheless, drawing his good sword Durendal, he made at Reynaud, and dealt him a great stroke.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: draw, make, deal · To what, where: good sword, Reynaud, great stroke
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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 drawing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 made | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sword | amod |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawing | obj |
| 7 | Durendal | Durendal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sword | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drawing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Reynaud | case |
| 12 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dealt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dealt | cc |
| 15 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dealt | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stroke | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stroke | amod |
| 19 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dealt | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | Reynaud not said here | Reynaud's good sword | nevertheless property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | Reynaud | Reynaud | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deal | past | Reynaud not said here | a great stroke | Reynaud | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stroke=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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