Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 44
King Clarion smote him on the shield, but could not break it through, so stiff and strong was it.
Who acts: King · What happens: smite, not break, be · To what, where: Clarion, shield
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | nsubj |
| 2 | Clarion | Clarion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | smote | smite | 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 smote | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shield | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shield | det |
| 7 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 break | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 break | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 break | advmod |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 smote | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 break | obj |
| 14 | through | through | ADV | _ | 12 break | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stiff | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 stiff | advmod |
| 17 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 break | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 strong | cc |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stiff | conj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 it | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stiff | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | King | Clarion | on the shield | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on shield=Patient | |||
| 2 | not break | could | shield | through property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | shield | 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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