Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 97
I saw him at Rome when my father the Admiral took that city, and then and there gave him my heart, when he had struck down to the earth a certain Lucifer that was chief of the pagan warriors.
Who acts: I, father, man, that · What happens: see, take, give, strike down, be · To what, where: man, Rome, city, heart, certain Lucifer, chief
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 (I, father, man, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Rome | case |
| 5 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 took | advmod |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Admiral | det |
| 10 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 father | appos |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 city | mark |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 gave | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 there | cc |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 then | conj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 struck | punct |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 struck | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 struck | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 struck | aux |
| 27 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 gave | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 struck | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 earth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 earth | det |
| 31 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 struck | obl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 Lucifer | det |
| 33 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Lucifer | amod |
| 34 | Lucifer | lucifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 struck | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 chief | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 chief | cop |
| 37 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Lucifer | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 warriors | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 warriors | det |
| 40 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 warriors | amod |
| 41 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 chief | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | man | Rome | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | past | my father | city | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | my heart | man | there | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient heart=Theme | ||
| 4 | strike down | past · perfect | man | a certain Lucifer and chief | to the earth result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to earth=Result | |||
| 5 | is a | past | that | chief | of the pagan warriors | tree rules |
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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