Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 50
Thirty wounds did Veillantif receive, and he fell dead under his master.
Who acts: Thirty wounds, Veillantif · What happens: receive, fall · To what, where: master
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 (Thirty wounds, Veillantif), 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 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 wounds | nummod |
| 2 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 receive | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 receive | aux |
| 4 | Veillantif | Veillantif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 receive | nsubj |
| 5 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 receive | conj |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fell | xcomp |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 master | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · do-support | Thirty wounds | Veillantif nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Veillantif | Veillantif's master | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under master=Location |
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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