Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 29
Thereupon Roland drew his sword and would have smitten his uncle had he not been held by the bystanders.
Who acts: Roland, bystanders · What happens: draw, smite, not hold · To what, where: sword, uncle
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 (Roland, bystanders), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smitten | cc |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 smitten | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 smitten | aux |
| 9 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 drew | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 held | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 held | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 held | aux:pass |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 smitten | ccomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 bystanders | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bystanders | det |
| 19 | bystanders | bystander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 held | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Roland | Roland's sword | thereupon property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | smite | would · perfect | Roland not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not hold | past · perfect · passive | the bystanders | Roland's uncle | Roland nsubj:pass | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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