Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 45
Then Ganelon drew his sword and smote Brullant where he stood by the Admiral's side, and, leaping on his horse, rode away.
Who acts: Ganelon · What happens: draw, smite, stand, leap, ride away · To what, where: sword, Brullant
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ganelon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 smote | cc |
| 7 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 8 | Brullant | Brullant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 smote | obj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 smote | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Admiral | det |
| 14 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Admiral | case |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaping | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leaping | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaping | punct |
| 20 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drew | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaping | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rode | punct |
| 25 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 rode | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Ganelon | Ganelon's sword | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | smite | past | Ganelon not said here | Brullant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brullant=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Ganelon | by the Admiral's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | leap | gerund | Ganelon not said here | on Ganelon's horse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | ride away | past | Ganelon not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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