Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 23
But then coming to themselves they drew each man his sword.
Who acts: reins · What happens: come, draw · To what, where: reins, man
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 (reins), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 drew | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 coming | advmod |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 drew | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 themselves | case |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 coming | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | reins = rein not said here | reins = rein | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to themselves=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | draw | past | reins = rein | each man man's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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