Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 136

They had scarce met in the shock of battle when Roland with one mighty blow cleft him to his saddle, aye, and slew the horse on which he rode.

Who acts: men, Roland · What happens: meet, slay, ride, shock · To what, where: Roland, shock, horse, battle

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 (men, Roland), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux
3	scarce	scarce	ADV	_	4 met	advmod
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 shock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shock	det
7	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 battle	case
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shock	nmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 Roland	advmod
11	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 cleft	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 cleft	nummod
14	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cleft	amod
15	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cleft	compound
16	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cleft	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 saddle	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 saddle	nmod:poss
20	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cleft	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 aye	punct
22	aye	aye	INTJ	_	16 cleft	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slew	cc
25	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slew	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 rode	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rode	nsubj
31	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 horse	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	men = man	Roland	the shock of battle	with one mighty blow cleft Roland to Roland's saddle; scarce property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with cleft=Co-Agent
2	slay	past	men = man not said here	the horse			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	ride	past	Roland			on the horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	shock			battle			nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 136

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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 136