Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 63
Which when he had brought, she smote Brutamont the jailer so mighty a blow upon the head that he fell to the ground a dead man.
Who acts: Floripas, chamberlain · What happens: bring, smite, fall · To what, where: Brutamont, dead 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 (Floripas, chamberlain), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 smote | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 smote | nsubj |
| 8 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 9 | Brutamont | Brutamont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jailer | det |
| 11 | jailer | jailer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 mighty | advmod |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blow | amod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blow | det |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blow | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 fell | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 smote | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | Which nsubj:pass; chamberlain nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | smite | past | Floripas | Brutamont | a mighty blow upon the head obl; the jailer obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus brutamont=Experiencer jailer=Result | |||
| 3 | fall | past | chamberlain | a dead man | 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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