Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 20
He rushed out of the crowd, and, shouting out the battle-cry of the heathen, hurled himself on the ranks of France. "
Who acts: Duke, shouting, heathen · What happens: rush out, shout out, hurl, cry · To what, where: crowd, battle cry, Duke, ranks
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, shouting, heathen), 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 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 crowd | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 crowd | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crowd | det |
| 6 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hurled | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shouting | punct |
| 10 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 hurled | csubj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 shouting | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cry | det |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cry | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 battle | punct |
| 15 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shouting | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 heathen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heathen | det |
| 18 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cry | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shouting | punct |
| 20 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 hurled | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 ranks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ranks | det |
| 24 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hurled | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 France | case |
| 26 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ranks | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | past | Duke | the crowd | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme crowd=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | shout out speech: express | gerund | the battle cry of the heathen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hurl | past | shouting | Duke | the ranks of France | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on rank=Destination | |||
| 4 | cry | the heathen | nom cry «communication 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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