Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 29
This done he charged the enemy; one of the leaders he slew at the first stroke, and not a few afterwards.
Who acts: done, one · What happens: charge, slay · To what, where: enemy, first stroke
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 (done, one), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | det |
| 2 | done | done | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charged | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 charged | nsubj |
| 4 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 enemy | det |
| 6 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charged | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 slew | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 slew | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 leaders | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leaders | det |
| 11 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slew | nsubj |
| 13 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charged | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 stroke | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stroke | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 stroke | amod |
| 17 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 few | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 few | cc |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 few | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 few | det |
| 22 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slew | conj |
| 23 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 22 few | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | past | this done | the enemy | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location enemy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slay | past | one of the leaders | the first stroke | done nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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