Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 132

Five knights, valiant men of war all of them, he slew one after the other, so that the men of France cried, "How fast they fall, these champions of ours!"

Who acts: Five knights, men · What happens: slay, cry, fall · To what, where: one · 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 (Five knights, 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 knights	nummod
2	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 men	punct
4	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knights	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 war	case
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 war	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 all	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knights	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slew	nsubj
13	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 slew	obj
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cried	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	25 cried	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 cried	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cried	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 France	case
24	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 men	nmod
25	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 slew	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fast	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 fast	punct
28	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 cried	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fall	nsubj
31	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fast	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 champions	punct
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 champions	det
34	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cried	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 ours	case
36	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 champions	nmod
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 champions	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 slew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slay	past	Five knights	one	after the other	knight nsubj	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	the men of France			this champions of ours parataxis; fast property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fall in a quote	present	men = man				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 132