Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 49
So he raised up his arm and smote with all his strength that yet remained to him on the helmet of Roland his friend.
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: raise up, smote, remain · To what, where: arm, strength, Oliver, helmet
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 raised | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 raised | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smote | cc |
| 8 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 raised | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 strength | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 strength | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 strength | nmod:poss |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 remained | obj |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 remained | advmod |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 strength | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 remained | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 helmet | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 helmet | det |
| 20 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remained | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Roland | case |
| 22 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 helmet | nmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remained | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise up | past | Oliver | Oliver's arm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smote | infinitive | Oliver not said here | with Oliver's strength | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | Oliver's strength | Oliver | the helmet of Roland | yet | Oliver's friend advcl | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute |
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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