Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 36
Turpin the Archbishop heard him--not one was there in all the heathen host whom Turpin more hated--and charged him, spear in hand, and bore him dead to the ground.
Who acts: Turpin, one · What happens: hear, be, hate, charge, bear · To what, where: King, heathen host, Turpin
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 (Turpin, one), 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 | Turpin | Turpin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Archbishop | det |
| 3 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Turpin | appos |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 one | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 there | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 host | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 host | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 host | det |
| 14 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 host | amod |
| 15 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 there | obl |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 Turpin | punct |
| 17 | Turpin | Turpin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 host | appos |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 hated | advmod |
| 19 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Turpin | acl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 charged | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 charged | cc |
| 22 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 charged | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spear | punct |
| 25 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 charged | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spear | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bore | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bore | cc |
| 30 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bore | obj |
| 32 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bore | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 ground | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ground | det |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bore | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Turpin | King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | one | all heathen host | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hate | participle | Turpin not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | charge | past | Turpin not said here | King | spear in hand obl | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | |||
| 5 | bear | past | Turpin not said here | King | to the ground; dead property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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