Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 76
Indeed, he smote him so stoutly that he brake through his helmet, wounding the knight's head.
Who acts: Nor · What happens: smite, break, wound · To what, where: Oliver, helmet, head
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 (Nor), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 smote | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smote | nsubj |
| 4 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smote | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 stoutly | advmod |
| 7 | stoutly | stoutly | ADV | _ | 4 smote | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 brake | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brake | nsubj |
| 10 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smote | advcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 helmet | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brake | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wounding | punct |
| 15 | wounding | wound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 smote | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 knight | det |
| 17 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 knight | case |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wounding | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | Nor | Oliver | indeed, stoutly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | break | present | Nor | Nor's helmet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through helmet=Location | ||||
| 3 | wound | gerund | Nor not said here | the knight's head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer |
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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