Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 121
Espoulart rode against the Frenchmen, and encountering Roland smote him on the shield so great a blow that he was well-nigh stunned, but his flesh was not wounded.
Who acts: Espoulart, encountering, flesh · What happens: ride, encounter, smite, stun, not be · To what, where: Roland, Espoulart, shield
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Espoulart, encountering, flesh), 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 | Espoulart | Espoulart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 Frenchmen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Frenchmen | det |
| 5 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 rode | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smote | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smote | cc |
| 8 | encountering | encounter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 smote | csubj |
| 9 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 encountering | obj |
| 10 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 smote | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 shield | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shield | det |
| 14 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smote | obl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blow | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blow | det |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smote | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 stunned | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stunned | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stunned | aux:pass |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 stunned | advmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 well | punct |
| 24 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 25 stunned | advmod |
| 25 | stunned | stun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 smote | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wounded | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 wounded | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 29 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wounded | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 wounded | cop |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 wounded | advmod |
| 32 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Espoulart | against the Frenchmen | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | encounter | gerund | Roland | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roland=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | smite | past | encountering | Espoulart | the shield | a great blow obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer blow=Result | ||
| 4 | stun | past · passive | Espoulart | nigh, well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | Espoulart's flesh | wounded property | 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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