Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 63
Duke Richard has slain this man and taken his horse, for indeed there is no better horse in all the world.
Who acts: Duke, better horse · What happens: slay, take, be · To what, where: man, horse
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 (Duke, better horse), 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 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 slain | nsubj |
| 2 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Duke | flat |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slain | aux |
| 4 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slain | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taken | cc |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 slain | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 is | case |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 is | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | advcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 horse | det |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 horse | amod |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 world | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 horse | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | present · perfect | Duke | this man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | Duke not said here | Duke's horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no better horse in all world | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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