Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 66
Nevertheless Roland slew him, cleaving his head in twain.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: slay, cleave · To what, where: Conifer, head, twain
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 (Roland), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 slew | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slew | nsubj |
| 3 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleaving | punct |
| 6 | cleaving | cleave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 slew | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cleaving | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 twain | case |
| 10 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cleaving | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | Roland | Conifer | nevertheless property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | cleave | gerund | Roland not said here | Conifer's head | twain | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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