Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 24
His shield he shore in twain, and burst the links of his hauberk, and hurled him dead from his saddle. "
Who acts: Oliver, shield · What happens: shore, burst, hurl · To what, where: twain, links, Oliver, saddle
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, shield), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shield | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shore | nsubj |
| 4 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shield | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 twain | case |
| 6 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shore | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 burst | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 burst | cc |
| 9 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 links | det |
| 11 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 burst | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hauberk | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hauberk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 links | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurled | cc |
| 17 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 burst | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hurled | obj |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hurled | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 saddle | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 22 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hurled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 burst | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shore | Oliver | twain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burst | past | Oliver's shield and shore | the links of Oliver's hauberk | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location link=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurl | past | Oliver's shield and shore not said here | Oliver | Oliver's saddle | dead property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from saddle=Initial_Location |
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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