Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 52
As King Charles rode back, he found Fierabras lying under a tree much spent with the bleeding of his wounds.
Who acts: Charles, Fierabras, wounds · What happens: ride back, find, lie, spend, bleed, wound · To what, where: Fierabras, tree
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 (Charles, Fierabras, wounds), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 rode | mark |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 found | xcomp |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 15 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 much | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bleeding | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bleeding | det |
| 18 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spent | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wounds | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bleeding | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride back | past | Charles King | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | Charles | Fierabras | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fierabras=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | Fierabras not said here | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | spend | participle | with the bleeding of Charles's wounds | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bleed | Charles's wounds | nom bleeding «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | wound | Charles | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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