Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 35
With his first blow Reynaud clave a knight's head to the teeth, and with his sword shore the head of another clean from his neck.
Who acts: host · What happens: blow
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host), 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 | _ | 4 blow | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 blow | nmod:poss |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 blow | amod |
| 4 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clave | compound |
| 6 | clave | clave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blow | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 knight | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blow | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 teeth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teeth | det |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 head | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shore | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shore | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shore | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shore | compound |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blow | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clean | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 another | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 head | nmod |
| 24 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shore | acl:relcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 neck | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 neck | nmod:poss |
| 27 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clean | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | blow | host | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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