Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 47
First of all went Roland, and slew King Corsablis; next came Oliver, and he also smote a king, Coldro by name; great was the slaughter, for the Saracens were taken as they sat at meat.
Who acts: Oliver, Saracens · What happens: go, slay, come, smite, be, take · To what, where: Roland, King, great slaughter, Saracens, meat
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, Saracens), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slew | cc |
| 8 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slew | obj |
| 10 | Corsablis | Corsablis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | next | next | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smote | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smote | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 smote | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 smote | advmod |
| 19 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smote | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Coldro | punct |
| 23 | Coldro | Coldro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 king | appos |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 name | case |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smote | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 great | punct |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 slaughter | amod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 slaughter | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 slaughter | det |
| 30 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 taken | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 taken | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Saracens | det |
| 34 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 taken | aux:pass |
| 36 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 sat | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 sat | nsubj |
| 39 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 taken | advcl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 meat | case |
| 41 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sat | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Roland | first property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roland=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slay | past | King | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Oliver | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | smite | past | Oliver | a king | by name | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the great slaughter | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take | past · passive | the Saracens | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sit | past | Saracens = saracen | meat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at meat=Location |
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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