Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 38
Not one of the Twelve Peers of France but slew his man.
What happens: slay · To what, where: man, one
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: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Peers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Peers | det |
| 5 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Peers | nummod |
| 6 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 France | case |
| 8 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Peers | nmod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 slew | cc |
| 10 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Peers | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 man | nmod:poss |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slew | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | France's man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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