Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 70
But Guy wrought marvels of valour, as one who having narrowly escaped from death, fought with great cheerfulness of heart.
Who acts: you, one, valour · What happens: guy, have, escape, fight, marvel · To what, where: wrought marvels, death
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 (you, one, valour), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 Guy | cc |
| 2 | Guy | guy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 marvels | amod |
| 4 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Guy | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 valour | case |
| 6 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marvels | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 having | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 having | nsubj |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Guy | advcl |
| 12 | narrowly | narrowly | ADV | _ | 13 escaped | advmod |
| 13 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 having | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 escaped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fought | punct |
| 17 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Guy | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 cheerfulness | case |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cheerfulness | amod |
| 20 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fought | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cheerfulness | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Guy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guy | imperative | you not said here | wrought marvels of valour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | one | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | escape | participle | one not said here | death | narrowly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from death=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | fight | past | you not said here | with great cheerfulness of heart | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with cheerfulness=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | marvel | valour | nom marvel «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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