Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 19

And as he spake he took his cloak and rent it into strips and bound up Walter's wounds therewith.

Who acts: Roland, Walter · What happens: take, rent, bind up, wound · To what, where: cloak, strips, wounds

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, Walter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 spake	case
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spake	nsubj
4	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cloak	nmod:poss
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rent	cc
10	rent	rent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rent	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 strips	case
13	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rent	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bound	cc
15	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 rent	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 bound	compound:prt
17	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 wounds	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Walter	case
19	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bound	obj
20	therewith	therewith	ADV	_	15 bound	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Roland	Roland's cloak		as spake Roland	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme as speak=Attribute
2	rent	present	Roland not said here	cloak	strips		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	bind up	participle	Roland not said here	Walter's wounds		therewith property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient
4	wound		Walter				nom wound «state 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 19