Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 41
They died that day whomsoever he smote with his good sword Joyous.
Who acts: men, King · What happens: die, smite · To what, where: day whomsoever
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 (men, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 whomsoever | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whomsoever | compound |
| 5 | whomsoever | whomsoever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 smote | nsubj |
| 7 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 whomsoever | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sword | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sword | amod |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smote | obl |
| 12 | Joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sword | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | men = man | that day whomsoever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smite | past | King | that day whomsoever not said here | with King's good sword | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent whomsoever=Patient with sword=Instrument |
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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