Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 115
Eight other Arab warriors he struck down from their saddles, and in such sort they would never join in the battle any more. "
Who acts: Eight other Arab warriors, men · What happens: strike down, not join · To what, where: saddles
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 (Eight other Arab warriors, men), 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 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 warriors | nummod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warriors | amod |
| 3 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warriors | amod |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 struck | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 saddles | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 saddles | nmod:poss |
| 10 | saddles | saddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 join | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 join | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sort | case |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sort | amod |
| 15 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 join | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 join | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 join | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 join | advmod |
| 19 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 struck | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 battle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 battle | det |
| 22 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 join | obl |
| 23 | any | any | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 join | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike down | past | Eight other Arab warriors | men's saddles | warrior nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not join | would | men = man | in the battle; in such sort | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sort=Theme |
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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