Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 23
They stood far off, and cast at the three spears and darts and javelins and weapons of every kind.
Who acts: men · What happens: stand, cast · To what, where: three spears
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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 off | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 stood | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cast | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cast | cc |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stood | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 spears | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spears | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 spears | nummod |
| 11 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cast | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 darts | cc |
| 13 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spears | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 javelins | cc |
| 15 | javelins | javelin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spears | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 weapons | cc |
| 17 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spears | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kind | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 kind | det |
| 20 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weapons | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | men = man | off property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cast | participle | men = man not said here | the three spears and darts and javelins and weapons of every kind | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at spear=Destination |
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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