Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 49
As for the Admiral he escaped most narrowly; for as he leapt from a window Roland dealt a great blow at him with his sword, and the sword made a hole of a foot deep in the marble stone of the window. "
Who acts: Many, Roland, sword · What happens: escape, leapt, deal, make · To what, where: window, great blow, hole
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 (Many, Roland, sword), 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 | 4 Admiral | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Admiral | det |
| 4 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escaped | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 escaped | nsubj |
| 6 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 narrowly | advmod |
| 8 | narrowly | narrowly | ADV | _ | 6 escaped | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 leapt | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 leapt | mark |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 leapt | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leapt | nsubj |
| 13 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 escaped | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 window | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 window | det |
| 16 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leapt | obl |
| 17 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 dealt | nsubj |
| 18 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 leapt | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 blow | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 blow | amod |
| 21 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dealt | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dealt | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sword | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sword | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dealt | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sword | det |
| 30 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 leapt | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hole | det |
| 33 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 foot | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 foot | det |
| 36 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hole | nmod |
| 37 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 made | xcomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 stone | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 stone | det |
| 40 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stone | compound |
| 41 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 deep | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 window | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 window | det |
| 44 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stone | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 escaped | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | Many | as the Admiral; narrowly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leapt | past | Many | a window | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deal | past | Roland | a great blow | at Many; with Many's sword | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | past | the sword | a hole of a foot | deep property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=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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