Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 7
When he was armed, Fierabras took the three swords that he had, Pleasance and Baptism and Grabon, all being of so fine a temper that there was no armour made but they could break through it.
Who acts: more, Fierabras, all, Pleasance · What happens: be, take, have, make, break · To what, where: three swords, armour
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 (more, Fierabras, all, Pleasance), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 armed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 armed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 armed | cop |
| 4 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 took | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 armed | punct |
| 6 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swords | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 swords | nummod |
| 10 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Pleasance | punct |
| 15 | Pleasance | Pleasance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 made | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Baptism | cc |
| 17 | Baptism | Baptism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Pleasance | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Grabon | cc |
| 19 | Grabon | Grabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Pleasance | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 temper | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 temper | nsubj |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 temper | cop |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 temper | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 fine | advmod |
| 25 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 temper | amod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 temper | det |
| 27 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Pleasance | appos |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 was | nsubj |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 was | expl |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 temper | acl:relcl |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 armour | det |
| 32 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 was | nsubj |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | parataxis |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 break | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 break | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 break | aux |
| 37 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 made | conj |
| 38 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 break | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | more | armed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Fierabras | the three swords | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | all | of a fine temper | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | past | Pleasance and Baptism and Grabon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | break | could | Pleasance | armour | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location |
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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