Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 18
Thereupon with one blow he smote off his right hand, and with another he shore off the head of the king's son Jurfalew. "
Who acts: Curse · What happens: smite off · To what, where: right hand
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 (Curse), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 smote | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 blow | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 blow | nummod |
| 4 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 smote | nsubj |
| 6 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 smote | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Jurfalew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Jurfalew | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 shore | det |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shore | nsubj |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Jurfalew | obl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shore | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 son | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 head | nmod |
| 25 | Jurfalew | Jurfalew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 Jurfalew | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Jurfalew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite off | past | Curse | Curse's right hand | with one blow; Jurfalew with another shore Curse off the head of the king's son parataxis; thereupon property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with blow=Instrument |
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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