Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 80
He is a stalwart man, and can strike a hard blow.
Who acts: Charles, stalwart man · What happens: be, strike · To what, where: stalwart man, hard blow
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, stalwart man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 strike | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strike | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 strike | aux |
| 9 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blow | det |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blow | amod |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strike | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Charles | a stalwart man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | can | a stalwart man not said here | a hard blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient |
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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