Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 113
Therewith he smote Chimborin so mighty a blow that he slew both man and horse.
Who acts: Engelier · What happens: smite, slay · To what, where: Chimborin, man
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 (Engelier), 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 | Therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 3 smote | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smote | nsubj |
| 3 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Chimborin | Chimborin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 mighty | advmod |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blow | amod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 blow | det |
| 8 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 slew | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 slew | nsubj |
| 11 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smote | advcl |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slew | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 horse | cc |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | Engelier | Chimborin | a mighty blow obj; therewith property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus chimborin=Experiencer blow=Result | |||
| 2 | slay | past | Engelier | both man and horse | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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