Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 65
He dealt a great blow on Roland's shield that went nigh to beat it down.
Who acts: Conifer, shield · What happens: deal, go, beat down · To what, where: great blow, shield, blow
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 (Conifer, shield), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dealt | nsubj |
| 2 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blow | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blow | amod |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dealt | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 shield | case |
| 7 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shield | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Roland | case |
| 9 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blow | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shield | acl:relcl |
| 12 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 beat | mark |
| 14 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beat | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 beat | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dealt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | past | Conifer | a great blow | Roland's shield | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Roland's shield | nigh property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beat down | to-infinitive | Roland's shield not said here | blow | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
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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