Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 33
At the last, being overcome by weariness and great bleeding, he fell to the ground.
Who acts: weariness, body · What happens: overcome, fall · To what, where: last
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 (weariness, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 last | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 overcome | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 overcome | aux:pass |
| 6 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 weariness | case |
| 8 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overcome | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bleeding | cc |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bleeding | amod |
| 11 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weariness | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overcome | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | gerund · passive | weariness and great bleeding | the last | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | body | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
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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