Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 59

He clomb down from his horse, and laid himself upon the ground, and clasping his hands lifted them to heaven and made his confession. "

Who acts: Oliver, clomb, clasping · What happens: clomb, lay, clasp, lift, make, confess · To what, where: Oliver, ground, hands, pains, heaven, confession

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, clomb, clasping), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clomb	nsubj
2	clomb	clomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	nsubj
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 clomb	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 down	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laid	cc
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 laid	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lifted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lifted	cc
16	clasping	clasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 lifted	csubj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clasping	obj
19	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lifted	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 heaven	case
22	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lifted	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lifted	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 confession	nmod:poss
26	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clomb		Oliver			down property	tree rules
2	lay	past	clomb	Oliver	the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon ground=Destination
3	clasp	gerund		Oliver's hands			vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	lift	past	clasping	pains = pain	heaven		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to heaven=Destination
5	make	past	clasping not said here	Oliver's confession			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confession=Product
6	confess		Oliver				nom confession «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 59