Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 44
Oliver especially was so carried out of himself that his hand grew numb with the frequency of his blows, and at last his sword flew out of his hand.
Who acts: hand, Oliver · What happens: carry out, grow, fly out, blow · To what, where: Oliver, hand, last sword
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 (hand, Oliver), 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 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 carried | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 grew | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | advcl |
| 13 | numb | numb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 frequency | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 frequency | det |
| 16 | frequency | frequency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 blows | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 blows | nmod:poss |
| 19 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 frequency | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flew | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 sword | case |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sword | amod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sword | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flew | obl |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past · passive | Oliver | out Oliver; especially property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Oliver's hand | with the frequency of Oliver's blows; numb property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly out | past | Oliver's hand not said here | Oliver's hand | Oliver's last sword | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at sword=Location | |||
| 4 | blow | Oliver | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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