Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 32
His shield was broken in thirty places, and his breastplate pierced through with darts, and his body wounded many times.
Who acts: breastplate, body · What happens: break, pierce, wound · To what, where: shield, thirty places
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 (breastplate, body), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shield | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux:pass |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 places | case |
| 6 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 places | nummod |
| 7 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 broken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pierced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pierced | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 breastplate | nmod:poss |
| 11 | breastplate | breastplate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pierced | nsubj |
| 12 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broken | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 darts | case |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 darts | case |
| 15 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pierced | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wounded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wounded | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wounded | nsubj |
| 20 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | parataxis |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 times | amod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wounded | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | done's shield | thirty places | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pierce | participle | done's breastplate | through darts | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through dart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wound | past | done's body | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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