Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 27
Thereupon the two dukes, Reyner and Richard, drawing their swords, smote him with all their might.
Who acts: Reyner, you · What happens: draw, smote · To what, where: swords, Gallafer
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reyner, you), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 14 smote | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dukes | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 dukes | nummod |
| 4 | dukes | duke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thereupon | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Reyner | punct |
| 6 | Reyner | Reyner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dukes | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Richard | cc |
| 8 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Reyner | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawing | punct |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Reyner | acl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 swords | nmod:poss |
| 12 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drawing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thereupon | punct |
| 14 | smote | smote | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smote | obj |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 might | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 might | det:predet |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 might | nmod:poss |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 smote | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | Reyner and Richard not said here | Richard's swords | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smote | imperative | you not said here | Gallafer | thereupon property | 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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