Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 130
He smites sore, does the Archbishop!" cried all the men of France when they saw the deed.
Who acts: priest, Archbishop, men · What happens: smite, do, cry, see · To what, where: men, deed · 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 (priest, Archbishop, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smites | nsubj |
| 2 | smites | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 smites | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 does | punct |
| 5 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 smites | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Archbishop | det |
| 7 | Archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Archbishop | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Archbishop | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 does | parataxis |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 men | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 France | case |
| 15 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 men | nmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 deed | det |
| 20 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smites | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | present | priest | sore property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | present | priest not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the Archbishop | all men of France | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | men = man | the deed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus |
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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