Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 50
The helmet he cleft in twain to the vizor; but by good fortune it wounded not the head.
Who acts: helmet · What happens: not wound · To what, where: head, cleft
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 (helmet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 helmet | det |
| 2 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleft | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cleft | nsubj |
| 4 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 twain | case |
| 6 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleft | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 vizor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizor | det |
| 9 | vizor | vizor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 twain | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 wounded | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 wounded | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fortune | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fortune | amod |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wounded | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wounded | nsubj |
| 16 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleft | acl:relcl |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wounded | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wounded | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wound | past | helmet | the head | by good fortune | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer |
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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