Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 63
Fiercely did the noble Walter that kept the same charge the new-comers, but they overpowered him and his followers.
Who acts: noble Walter, passes · What happens: do, keep, overpower · To what, where: noble Walter, same charge, King
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 (noble Walter, passes), 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 | Fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Walter | det |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Walter | amod |
| 5 | Walter | walter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Walter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 charge | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 charge | amod |
| 10 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 comers | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 comers | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 new | punct |
| 14 | comers | comer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 charge | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 overpowered | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 overpowered | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 overpowered | nsubj |
| 18 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 overpowered | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 followers | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 followers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 overpowered | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the noble Walter | fiercely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walter=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the noble Walter | the same charge the new comers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overpower | past | passes = pass | King | King's followers conj | 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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