Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 16

First he slew Beuvon of Burgundy, and Ivan, and Gerard and other two: five knights he met, five he slew, but the sixth was the Count Roland himself. "

Who acts: Roland, sixth · What happens: slay, meet, be · To what, where: Beuvon, five knights, Count Roland

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, sixth), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 slew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slew	nsubj
3	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Beuvon	Beuvon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 slew	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Burgundy	case
6	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Beuvon	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Ivan	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Ivan	cc
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 slew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Gerard	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Gerard	cc
12	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ivan	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 two	cc
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 two	amod
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 Ivan	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 knights	punct
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 knights	nummod
18	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slew	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 met	nsubj
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knights	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 five	punct
22	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 knights	appos
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slew	nsubj
24	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 five	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Roland	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 Roland	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sixth	det
28	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Roland	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Roland	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Roland	det
31	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Roland	compound
32	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 slew	parataxis
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	32 Roland	nmod:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 Roland	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Roland	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slay	past	Roland	Beuvon of Burgundy	Ivan obl; five knights obl; first property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beuvon=Patient
2	meet	past	Roland	five knights not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent
3	slay	past	Roland			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the sixth	the Count Roland	Roland nmod:unmarked	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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 16