Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 42
The King saw the giant Gallafer on the ground with his great axe in his hand wherewith he had slain thirty Frenchmen, and he commanded that he should be slain, for he yet breathed.
Who acts: King · What happens: see, slay, command, be, breathe · To what, where: giant Gallafer, ground, thirty Frenchmen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Gallafer | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Gallafer | amod |
| 6 | Gallafer | Gallafer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 axe | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 axe | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 axe | amod |
| 13 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 axe | nmod |
| 17 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 slain | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slain | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slain | aux |
| 20 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 hand | acl:relcl |
| 21 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 Frenchmen | nummod |
| 22 | Frenchmen | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 slain | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 commanded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 commanded | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 commanded | nsubj |
| 26 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 slain | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 slain | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 slain | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 slain | cop |
| 31 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 commanded | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 breathed | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 breathed | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 breathed | nsubj |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 36 breathed | advmod |
| 36 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 commanded | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | the giant Gallafer | the ground | with King's great axe in King's hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gallafer=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | slay | past · perfect | King | thirty Frenchmen | wherewith property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frenchman=Patient | |||
| 3 | command | past | King | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | should | King | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | breathe | past | King | yet | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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