Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 28
Whereupon Oliver took his shield, for his own had been broken to pieces.
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: take, break · To what, where: shield, own
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 (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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shield | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 broken | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 own | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 broken | obl |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 broken | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 broken | aux:pass |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pieces | case |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 broken | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Oliver | Oliver's shield | whereupon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | past · perfect · passive | Oliver not said here | Oliver's own | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: to piece=Result |
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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