Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 46
Many a heathen warrior did he slay, till at last his spear was shivered in his hand. "
Who acts: heathen warrior · What happens: slay, shiver · To what, where: Many
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 (heathen warrior), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slay | obj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 warrior | det |
| 3 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warrior | amod |
| 4 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slay | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slay | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slay | nsubj |
| 7 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shivered | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 shivered | mark |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 spear | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spear | amod |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shivered | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shivered | aux:pass |
| 15 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 slay | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shivered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past · do-support | a heathen warrior | Many | warrior nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | |||
| 2 | shiver | past · passive | in warrior's hand; at warrior's last spear | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: at spear=Stimulus |
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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