Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 82
And the man fell with the blow, so mighty was it, for Oliver dealt it with all his strength that so he might put an end to the fight.
Who acts: man, Oliver · What happens: fall, be, deal, put · To what, where: blow, strength
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 (man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 blow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mighty | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 mighty | advmod |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | conj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 it | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mighty | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dealt | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 dealt | mark |
| 15 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dealt | nsubj |
| 16 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dealt | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 strength | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 strength | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 strength | nmod:poss |
| 21 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dealt | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 put | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 put | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | aux |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 strength | acl:relcl |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 fight | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fight | det |
| 31 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the man | with the blow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | blow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deal | past | Oliver | blow | with Oliver's strength | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | put | might | Oliver | Oliver's strength | a end | to the fight | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent that=Asset end=Goal |
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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