Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 81
The Saracen champions donned their coats of mail, of double substance most of them, and they set upon their heads helmets of Saragossa of well-tempered metal, and they girded themselves with swords of Vienna.
Who acts: Saracen champions, champions · What happens: don, set, temper, gird · To what, where: coats, heads helmets, champions
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 (Saracen champions, champions), 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 | 3 champions | det |
| 2 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 champions | compound |
| 3 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 donned | nsubj |
| 4 | donned | don | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 coats | nmod:poss |
| 6 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 donned | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mail | case |
| 8 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coats | nmod | ||
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 substance | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 substance | case |
| 11 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 substance | amod |
| 12 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 donned | obl |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 substance | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 most | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 donned | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 helmets | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heads | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 helmets | compound |
| 23 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Saragossa | case |
| 25 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 helmets | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 metal | case |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 tempered | advmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 well | punct |
| 29 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 metal | amod |
| 30 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Saragossa | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 girded | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 girded | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 girded | nsubj |
| 34 | girded | gird | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 donned | conj |
| 35 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 girded | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 swords | case |
| 37 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 girded | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Vienna | case |
| 39 | Vienna | Vienna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 swords | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 donned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | don | past | the Saracen champions | champions's coats of mail | of double substance most of coats | vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | present | champions = champion | heads helmets of Saragossa of tempered metal | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon helmet=Destination | ||||
| 3 | temper | participle | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gird | past | champions = champion | champions = champion | with swords of Vienna | tree rules |
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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