Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 39
With his great sword Hautclere he smote the Caliph on his head and cleft it to the teeth. "
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: smite, cleft · To what, where: Caliph, head
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 (Oliver), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 sword | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sword | amod |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smote | obl |
| 5 | Hautclere | Hautclere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sword | appos |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 smote | nsubj |
| 7 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caliph | det |
| 9 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 smote | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smote | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cleft | cc |
| 14 | cleft | cleft | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 smote | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cleft | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 teeth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teeth | det |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cleft | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 smote | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | Oliver | the Caliph | Oliver's head | with Oliver's great sword | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent caliph=Patient with sword=Instrument | ||
| 2 | cleft | infinitive | Oliver not said here | head | to the teeth | 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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