Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 9

He spurred his steed with spurs of gold, and smote the heathen warrior with all his might.

Who acts: Roland · What happens: spur, smite · To what, where: steed, heathen warrior, gold

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 (Roland), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spurred	nsubj
2	spurred	spur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 steed	nmod:poss
4	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spurred	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 spurs	case
6	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spurred	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spurs	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smote	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smote	cc
11	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spurred	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 warrior	det
13	heathen	heathen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 warrior	amod
14	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smote	obj
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 might	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 might	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 might	nmod:poss
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 smote	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spur	past	Roland	Roland's steed	with spurs of gold	vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient
2	smite	past	Roland not said here	the heathen warrior		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus warrior=Experiencer
3	spur			gold		nom spur «communication transitive»: of=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 9