Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 6
We have been discomfited by King Charles, and Fierabras your son was overcome in single fight by one of the King's Barons, and has been made a Christian man."
Who acts: Charles · What happens: discomfit, overcome, make · To what, where: We, Fierabras son, Christian man
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 (Charles), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 discomfited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 discomfited | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 discomfited | aux:pass |
| 4 | discomfited | discomfit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Charles | case |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 discomfited | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 overcome | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 overcome | cc |
| 10 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | compound |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 overcome | aux:pass |
| 14 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 discomfited | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fight | case |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fight | amod |
| 17 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 overcome | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 overcome | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Barons | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Barons | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 King | case |
| 24 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 made | cc |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 made | aux:pass |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 discomfited | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 31 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 man | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discomfited | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 discomfited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discomfit | present · perfect · passive | Charles King | We | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | overcome | past · passive | your Fierabras son | by one of the King's Barons; in single fight | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in fight=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | make | present · perfect · passive | Charles King not said here | a Christian man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: man=Product |
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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