Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 54

He unlaced his helmet and took the corslet from off him, and bound up his wounds with strips of his shirt of silk, and taking him in his arms laid him down softly on the grass.

Who acts: Fain, taking · What happens: unlace, take, bind up, lay down, wound · To what, where: helmet, corslet, wounds, Fain, arms, grass

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 (Fain, taking), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 unlaced	nsubj
2	unlaced	unlace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 helmet	nmod:poss
4	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unlaced	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unlaced	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corslet	det
8	corslet	corslet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 him	case
10	off	off	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bound	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bound	cc
14	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 unlaced	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 bound	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wounds	nmod:poss
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bound	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 strips	case
19	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bound	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 shirt	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shirt	nmod:poss
22	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strips	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 silk	case
24	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shirt	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 laid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 laid	cc
27	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 laid	csubj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 taking	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 arms	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 arms	nmod:poss
31	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 taking	obl
32	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unlaced	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 laid	compound:prt
35	softly	softly	ADV	_	32 laid	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 grass	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 grass	det
38	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 laid	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unlaced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unlace	past	Fain	Fain's helmet			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient
2	take	past	Fain not said here	the corslet		from Fain	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent corslet=Theme from he=Initial_Location
3	bind up	participle		Fain's wounds		with strips of Fain's shirt of silk	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient with strip=Co-Patient
4	take	gerund		Fain	Fain's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location
5	lay down	past	taking	Fain	the grass	softly property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on grass=Destination
6	wound		Fain				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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 54