Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 21
Meanwhile the two warriors met in the shock of battle, and that so fiercely that the sparks flew from their spearheads when they smote on the shields, and that the shafts of both were broken.
Who acts: two warriors, that, warrior · What happens: meet, fly, smite, break, shock · To what, where: shock, spearheads, shafts, battle
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two warriors, that, warrior), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warriors | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 warriors | nummod |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shock | det |
| 8 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 battle | case |
| 10 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shock | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fiercely | advmod |
| 15 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 flew | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sparks | det |
| 18 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 spearheads | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 spearheads | nmod:poss |
| 22 | spearheads | spearhead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flew | obl |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 smote | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 smote | nsubj |
| 25 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flew | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 shields | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shields | det |
| 28 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 smote | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 broken | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 broken | cc |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 broken | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 shafts | det |
| 33 | shafts | shaft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 both | case |
| 35 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 shafts | nmod |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 broken | aux:pass |
| 37 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 met | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the two warriors | the shock of battle | meanwhile property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fly | past | that | sparks's spearheads | the sparks nsubj; fiercely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from spearhead=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | smite | past | warrior | on the shields | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on shield=Patient | ||||
| 4 | break | past · passive | the shafts of both | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | shock | battle | nom shock «feeling 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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