Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 14

Ten kings have I slain already in single combat; there was not one of them, for all that they were mighty men of valour, that could stand against me."

Who acts: one, Oliver, valour · What happens: slay, be, stand · To what, where: Ten kings, single combat

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Oliver, valour), 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	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kings	nummod
2	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slain	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slain	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 slain	nsubj
5	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	already	already	ADV	_	5 slain	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 combat	case
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 combat	amod
9	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slain	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slain	parataxis
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 was	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 men	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	24 men	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 men	det:predet
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 men	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 men	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 men	cop
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 men	amod
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slain	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 valour	case
26	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 men	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stand	punct
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 stand	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stand	aux
30	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 valour	acl:relcl
31	against	against	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 stand	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 men	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slay	present · perfect · passive		Ten kings	single combat	I nsubj	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	be	past	one of Oliver		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Oliver			for all mighty men; of valour	tree rules
4	stand	could	valour			against me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against i=Location

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 14