Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 21
For he slew our lord the Pope, and hanged many holy men and women, and to this day he holds possession of the holy Sepulchre of our Lord."
Who acts: name · What happens: slay, hange, hold, possess · To what, where: lord, many holy men, possession, holy Sepulchre
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 (name), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 slew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slew | nsubj |
| 3 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slew | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pope | det |
| 7 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hanged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hanged | cc |
| 10 | hanged | hange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slew | conj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 12 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hanged | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 women | cc |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 men | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 holds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 holds | cc |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holds | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 holds | nsubj |
| 22 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slew | parataxis |
| 23 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holds | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Sepulchre | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sepulchre | det |
| 26 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Sepulchre | amod |
| 27 | Sepulchre | Sepulchre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 possession | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Lord | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Sepulchre | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 holds | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | name | our lord | the Pope obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hange | past | name not said here | many holy men and women | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | present | name | possession of the holy Sepulchre of our Lord | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||
| 4 | possess | the holy Sepulchre of our Lord | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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