Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 28
Thereat Guy was greatly moved with anger, so that he lay hold of the Saracen by the hair with one hand and with the other hand smote him upon the bone of his neck so fiercely that the man fell down dead before the Admiral.
Who acts: thing, man · What happens: move, lie, smite, fall down, hold · To what, where: Guy, hold, thing, dead, Saracen
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 (thing, man), 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 | Thereat | thereat | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 2 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | aux:pass |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 anger | case |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 lay | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | parataxis |
| 13 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Saracen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Saracen | det |
| 16 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 hair | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hair | det |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hand | nummod |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 smote | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hand | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hand | amod |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 smote | obl |
| 28 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lay | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 smote | obj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 bone | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bone | det |
| 32 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 smote | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 neck | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 neck | nmod:poss |
| 35 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bone | nmod |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 fiercely | advmod |
| 37 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 28 smote | advmod |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 fell | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fell | nsubj |
| 41 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 smote | advcl |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 43 dead | advmod |
| 43 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fell | obj |
| 44 | before | before | ADP | _ | 46 Admiral | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Admiral | det |
| 46 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dead | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | Guy | with anger; greatly, thereat property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | thing | hold of the Saracen | by the hair; with one hand | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme | |||
| 3 | smite | past | thing not said here | thing | with the other hand; upon the bone of thing's neck; fiercely property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hand=Instrument | |||
| 4 | fall down | past | the man | dead before the Admiral | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dead=Result | ||||
| 5 | hold | the Saracen | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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