Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 47
Many blows did he deal with it, and few were they that were smitten and yet lived.
Who acts: Many blows · What happens: deal, smite, live · To what, where: few
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 (Many blows), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blows | amod |
| 2 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 deal | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deal | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deal | nsubj |
| 5 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deal | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smitten | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smitten | cc |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 smitten | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 smitten | aux |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 smitten | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 smitten | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 smitten | aux:pass |
| 15 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 deal | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lived | cc |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 smitten | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | past · do-support | Many blows | with front; Roland nsubj | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smite | past · passive | few | blows = blow nsubj; that nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | live | past | yet | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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