Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 106

He rode at full speed, levelling his lance at Engelier the Gascon, and smote him through shield and hauberk so stoutly that the spear stood out of his body on the other side. "

Who acts: horse, spear · What happens: ride, levell, smote, stand out · To what, where: full speed, lance, Engelier, horse, shield, body

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 (horse, spear), 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 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 speed	case
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speed	amod
5	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 levelling	punct
7	levelling	levell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rode	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lance	nmod:poss
9	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 levelling	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Engelier	case
11	Engelier	Engelier	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 levelling	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Gascon	det
13	Gascon	gascon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 levelling	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smote	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smote	cc
16	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rode	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 smote	obj
18	through	through	ADP	_	19 shield	case
19	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smote	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hauberk	cc
21	hauberk	hauberk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shield	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 stoutly	advmod
23	stoutly	stoutly	ADV	_	2 rode	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 stood	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spear	det
26	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 body	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 body	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 body	nmod:poss
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 side	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 side	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 side	amod
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	horse		full speed	stoutly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	levell	gerund	horse not said here	horse's lance	Engelier	the Gascon obj	tree rules
3	smote	infinitive	horse not said here	horse	shield and hauberk		tree rules
4	stand out	past	the spear	horse's body	the other side		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme on side=Destination

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, The Battle, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 106