Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 16
He was in his chapel at his city of Aachen, and a bear bit him so cruelly on the right arm that the flesh was broken even to the bone.
Who acts: King, bear · What happens: be, bite, break · To what, where: chapel, King, right arm, flesh
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, bear), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chapel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chapel | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chapel | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chapel | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 city | nmod:poss |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chapel | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Aachen | case |
| 10 | Aachen | Aachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 city | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bit | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bit | nsubj |
| 15 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chapel | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bit | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 cruelly | advmod |
| 18 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 15 bit | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 arm | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 arm | det |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 arm | amod |
| 22 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bit | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 broken | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flesh | det |
| 25 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 broken | aux:pass |
| 27 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bit | advcl |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 bone | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 bone | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bone | det |
| 31 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 broken | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chapel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | King's chapel | at King's city of Aachen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bite | past | a bear | King | the right arm | cruelly property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on arm=Location | ||
| 3 | break | past · passive | the flesh | to the bone result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bone=Result |
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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