Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 19
When he saw that his nephew was dead it cut him to the heart.
Who acts: Duke, nephew, insolent · What happens: see, be, cut · To what, where: Duke · 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 (Duke, nephew, insolent), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cut | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 dead | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dead | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dead | cop |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | nsubj |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Duke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Duke's nephew | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | insolent | Duke | to the heart result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Instrument he=Patient to heart=Result |
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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