Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 129
With one blow of his good Toledo sword he slew the African. "
Who acts: priest, good Toledo sword · What happens: slay, blow · To what, where: African
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 (priest, good Toledo sword), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 blow | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 blow | nummod |
| 3 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 7 | Toledo | toledo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sword | compound |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blow | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slew | nsubj |
| 10 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 African | det |
| 12 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 slew | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slew | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | priest | the African | with one blow of blow's good Toledo sword | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent african=Patient with blow=Instrument | |||
| 2 | blow | blow's good Toledo sword | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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