Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 9
On his shield he had the image of his god, Apollyon to wit, to whom when he had commended himself, he yet once again besought Oliver to depart.
Who acts: more · What happens: have, wit, commend, beseech, depart, image · To what, where: image, shield, more, Oliver, god
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 shield | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 shield | nmod:poss |
| 3 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 image | det |
| 7 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 god | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 god | nmod:poss |
| 10 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 image | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Apollyon | punct |
| 12 | Apollyon | Apollyon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 god | appos |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wit | mark |
| 14 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Apollyon | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 commended | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 commended | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 commended | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 commended | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 commended | aux |
| 21 | commended | commend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 had | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 commended | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 besought | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 besought | nsubj |
| 25 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 28 besought | advmod |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 again | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 besought | advmod |
| 28 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 29 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 besought | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 depart | mark |
| 31 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 besought | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | more | the image of more's god | more's shield | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Patient | |||
| 2 | wit | to-infinitive | more not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | commend | past · perfect | more | more | whom obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 4 | beseech | past | more | Oliver | yet; again | tree rules | |||
| 5 | depart | to-infinitive | more not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | image | more's god | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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