Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 36
As for Oliver the salt water made his wounds, which were many and grievous, to smart beyond all bearing.
Who acts: salt water, wounds, water · What happens: make, be, wound · To what, where: wounds
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salt water, wounds, water), 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 | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Oliver | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 5 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 many | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 many | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 many | cop |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wounds | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grievous | cc |
| 15 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 many | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smart | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 smart | mark |
| 18 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | conj |
| 19 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 21 bearing | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 bearing | det |
| 21 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smart | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the salt water | water's wounds | as Oliver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wound=Product | |||
| 2 | is | past | water's wounds | many property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | water's wounds not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wound | water | 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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