Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 122
This man smote Duke Samson, breaking with his spear both shield and hauberk, and so did him to death. "
Who acts: man · What happens: smite, break, do · To what, where: Duke
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 (man), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | nsubj |
| 3 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | obj |
| 5 | Samson | Samson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Duke | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 breaking | punct |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 smote | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 spear | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 spear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breaking | obl |
| 11 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 shield | cc:preconj |
| 12 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spear | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hauberk | cc |
| 14 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shield | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 did | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 did | advmod |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smote | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 did | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smote | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | this man | Duke | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus duke=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | this man not said here | with Duke's spear shield and hauberk | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spear=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | do | past | this man not said here | Duke | to death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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