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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 49

Roland's shield they broke and his hauberk; but him they hurt not; nevertheless they did him a grievous injury, for they killed his good steed Veillantif.

Who acts: shield, heathen, things · What happens: break, not hurt, do, kill · To what, where: heathen, good steed

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 (shield, heathen, things), 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

nmod:posscasensubjnsubjccnmod:possconjpunctccnsubjnsubjparataxisadvmodpunctadvmodnsubjconjobjdetamodobjpunctmarknsubjconjnmod:possamodobjappospunctrootRolandPROPN'sPARTshieldNOUNtheyPRONbrokeVERBandCCONJhisPRONhauberkNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJhimPRONtheyPRONhurtVERBnotPART;PUNCTneverthelessADVtheyPRONdidVERBhimPRONaDETgrievousADJinjuryNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJtheyPRONkilledVERBhisPRONgoodADJsteedNOUNVeillantifPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1RolandRolandPROPNNumber=Sing3 shieldnmod:poss
2's'sPART_1 Rolandcase
3shieldshieldNOUNNumber=Sing5 brokensubj
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 brokensubj
5brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6andandCCONJ_8 hauberkcc
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 hauberknmod:poss
8hauberkhauberkNOUNNumber=Sing5 brokeconj
9;;PUNCT_13 hurtpunct
10butbutCCONJ_13 hurtcc
11himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 hurtnsubj
12theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs13 hurtnsubj
13hurthurtVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 brokeparataxis
14notnotPARTPolarity=Neg13 hurtadvmod
15;;PUNCT_18 didpunct
16neverthelessneverthelessADV_18 didadvmod
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 didnsubj
18diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 hurtconj
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 didobj
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 injurydet
21grievousgrievousADJDegree=Pos22 injuryamod
22injuryinjuryNOUNNumber=Sing18 didobj
23,,PUNCT_26 killedpunct
24forforSCONJ_26 killedmark
25theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 killednsubj
26killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 hurtconj
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 steednmod:poss
28goodgoodADJDegree=Pos29 steedamod
29steedsteedNOUNNumber=Sing26 killedobj
30VeillantifVeillantifPROPNNumber=Sing29 steedappos
31..PUNCT_5 brokepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1breakpastRoland's shieldthings = thing nsubj; Roland's hauberk conjvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2not hurtpastheathenthings = thing nsubjvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3dopastthings = thingheathena grievous injury obj; nevertheless propertytree rules
4killpastthings = thingheathen's good steedvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme

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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