Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 21
Thereupon came Brullant the Saracen riding fiercely at him, and struck him in the breast with his spear, so that the shaft brake; but Oliver was wounded.
Who acts: Brullant, Oliver · What happens: come, strike, be · To what, where: Saracen riding, Oliver, breast
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brullant, 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Brullant | Brullant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 riding | det |
| 5 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 riding | compound |
| 6 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 breast | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 breast | det |
| 16 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 spear | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 spear | nmod:poss |
| 19 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brake | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 25 brake | case |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 brake | det |
| 24 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brake | compound |
| 25 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 wounded | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 wounded | cc |
| 28 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 wounded | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 wounded | cop |
| 30 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Brullant | the Saracen riding | at Oliver; fiercely, thereupon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | |||
| 2 | strike | past | Oliver | the breast | with Oliver's spear; the shaft brake conj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with spear=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is | past | Oliver | wounded property | tree rules |
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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