Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 111
God grant that I may avenge him," answered Oliver, and struck spurs into his horse.
Who acts: God grant · What happens: avenge, answer, strike · To what, where: Engelier, Oliver, spurs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (God grant), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grant | compound |
| 2 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 avenge | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 avenge | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 avenge | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 avenge | aux |
| 6 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 avenge | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 avenge | parataxis |
| 11 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 struck | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 struck | cc |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 15 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 struck | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 horse | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 avenge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avenge | may | God grant | Engelier | that nsubj; I nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Oliver | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oliver=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | strike in a quote | past | spurs | into Engelier's horse result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spur=Patient into horse=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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