Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 23
He struck his spurs of gold into his charger's flanks, and smote Fausseron with a right knightly blow.
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: strike, smite, spur · To what, where: spurs, flanks, Fausseron, gold
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 (Oliver), 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 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 struck | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spurs | nmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 flanks | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 charger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flanks | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 charger | case |
| 11 | flanks | flank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 struck | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smote | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 smote | cc |
| 14 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | conj |
| 15 | Fausseron | Fausseron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 smote | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 blow | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 blow | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blow | amod |
| 19 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blow | amod |
| 20 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smote | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Oliver | Oliver's spurs of gold | into Oliver's charger's flanks result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spur=Patient into flank=Result | |||
| 2 | smite | past | Oliver not said here | Fausseron | with a right knightly blow | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fausseron=Patient with blow=Instrument | |||
| 3 | spur | Oliver | gold | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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