Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 21
Five-and-twenty did Roland slay, and Walter slew six, and the Archbishop five.
Who acts: Roland, Walter · What happens: slay · To what, where: twenty, six, Five
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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 slay | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slay | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 twenty | punct |
| 5 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 slay | obl |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 slay | aux |
| 7 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slay | nsubj |
| 8 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Five | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slew | cc |
| 11 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 slew | nsubj |
| 12 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 slay | conj |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 slew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Archbishop | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Archbishop | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Archbishop | det |
| 17 | Archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slew | obl |
| 18 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Archbishop | flat |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Five | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past · do-support | Roland | twenty | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | slay | past | Walter | six | the Archbishop obl | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient |
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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