Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 75
They have done him great damage, holding his chief Tower, and therein his gods and Floripas his daughter, and have slain many of his servants.
Who acts: horses · What happens: do, hold, slay · To what, where: man, chief, many
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 (horses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 done | obj |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 damage | amod |
| 6 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 holding | punct |
| 8 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 done | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chief | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holding | obj |
| 11 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 chief | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gods | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gods | cc |
| 14 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 16 gods | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gods | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 done | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Floripas | cc |
| 18 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gods | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gods | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slain | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slain | cc |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 slain | aux |
| 24 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 done | advcl |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 slain | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 servants | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 servants | nmod:poss |
| 28 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 many | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | horses = horse | man | man's gods and Floripas and man's daughter obl; great damage obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | horses = horse not said here | man's chief | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | present · perfect | horses = horse not said here | many of man's servants | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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