Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 42

Red was his hauberk, red his arms, red his shoulders, aye, and the neck of his horse.

Who acts: Red · What happens: be, red · To what, where: hauberk, arms, shoulders

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 (Red), 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	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 red	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hauberk	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hauberk	nmod:poss
4	hauberk	hauberk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Red	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Red	punct
6	red	red	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 red	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 red	punct
10	red	red	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 red	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoulders	nmod:poss
12	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 red	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 aye	punct
14	aye	aye	INTJ	_	10 red	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 neck	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 neck	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neck	det
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 red	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 horse	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horse	nmod:poss
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 neck	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Red's hauberk	Red nmod:poss	tree rules
2	red	past	Red	Red's arms	the neck of Red's horse parataxis	tree rules
3	red	past	Red not said here	Red's shoulders		tree rules

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 42