Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 19

First the greyhound laid hold of the bear by the right ear, and then it assailed the leopard furiously. "'

Who acts: greyhound, hold · What happens: lay, assail, hold · To what, where: hold, leopard, bear

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 (greyhound, hold), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 laid	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 greyhound	det
3	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	nsubj
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bear	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 ear	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ear	det
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ear	amod
12	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 assailed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 assailed	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 assailed	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assailed	nsubj
17	assailed	assail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 leopard	det
19	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 assailed	obj
20	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	17 assailed	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the greyhound	hold of the bear		by the right ear; first property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme by ear=Destination
2	assail	past	hold	the leopard	then	furiously property	vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leopard=Patient
3	hold			the bear			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 19