Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 4
So Oliver armed him; he helped him to don first a suit of leather of Arabia and after this a coat and habergeon of steel, and an helmet richly garnished with jewels for his head.
Who acts: Oliver, Fierabras · What happens: arm, help, don, garnish · To what, where: Fierabras, Oliver, suit, helmet
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, Fierabras), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 armed | advmod |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 armed | nsubj |
| 3 | armed | arm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 armed | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 helped | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helped | nsubj |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 armed | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helped | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 don | mark |
| 10 | don | don | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helped | xcomp |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 don | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 suit | det |
| 13 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 don | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 leather | case |
| 15 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suit | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Arabia | case |
| 17 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 leather | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 coat | cc |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 coat | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 coat | det |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 coat | det |
| 22 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helped | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 habergeon | cc |
| 24 | habergeon | habergeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coat | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 steel | case |
| 26 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 habergeon | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 garnished | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 garnished | cc |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 helmet | det |
| 30 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 garnished | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 32 garnished | advmod |
| 32 | garnished | garnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 armed | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 jewels | case |
| 34 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 garnished | obl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 head | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 garnished | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 armed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arm | past | Oliver | Fierabras | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | help | past | Fierabras | Oliver | this coat and habergeon of steel conj | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | don | to-infinitive | Oliver not said here | a suit of leather of Arabia | first property | vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Theme | |||
| 4 | garnish | participle · passive | a helmet | with jewels; for Fierabras's head; richly property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with jewel=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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