Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 10
He brake his shield in twain, and severed the mail of his hauberk, and clave his body into two parts.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: break, sever, mail · To what, where: shield, twain, mail, two parts, hauberk
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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 | 2 brake | nsubj |
| 2 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shield | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brake | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 twain | case |
| 6 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brake | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 severed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 severed | cc |
| 9 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brake | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mail | det |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 severed | obj | ||
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hauberk | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hauberk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mail | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clave | cc |
| 17 | clave | clave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 severed | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clave | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 parts | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 parts | nummod |
| 22 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 severed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Roland | Roland's shield | twain | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shield=Patient | |||
| 2 | sever | past | Roland not said here | the mail of Roland's hauberk | two parts | clave Roland's body conj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mail=Theme | ||
| 3 | Roland's hauberk | nom mail «communication 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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