Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 24
And first Oliver with Hautclere smote Fierabras so fiercely on the helmet that he shore off a great portion of it, and the jewels wherewith it was garnished fell to the ground.
Who acts: Oliver, jewels · What happens: smite, shore, garnish, fall · To what, where: Fierabras, portion
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 (Oliver, jewels), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 smote | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Oliver | advmod |
| 3 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Hautclere | case |
| 5 | Hautclere | Hautclere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Oliver | nmod |
| 6 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 fiercely | advmod |
| 9 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 6 smote | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 helmet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 helmet | det |
| 12 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 shore | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shore | nsubj |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helmet | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 portion | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 portion | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 portion | amod |
| 19 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shore | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 portion | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jewels | det |
| 25 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 garnished | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 garnished | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 garnished | aux:pass |
| 29 | garnished | garnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 jewels | acl:relcl |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 smote | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 ground | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ground | det |
| 33 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | Oliver with Hautclere | Fierabras | on the helmet and shore; fiercely property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent fierabras=Instrument on helmet=Patient | |||
| 2 | shore | Oliver | off a great portion of portion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | garnish | past · passive | portion | wherewith property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the jewels | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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