Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 7
For see how my spear is broken and my shield cleft in twain, my hauberk is in pieces, and my body sorely wounded.
Who acts: hauberk, body · What happens: break, be, wound · To what, where: see, pieces
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 (hauberk, body), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 broken | mark |
| 2 | see | see | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 broken | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 broken | aux:pass |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 wounded | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cleft | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cleft | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cleft | compound |
| 11 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broken | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 twain | case |
| 13 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cleft | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pieces | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hauberk | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pieces | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pieces | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pieces | case |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 broken | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wounded | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wounded | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wounded | nsubj |
| 24 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 25 wounded | advmod |
| 25 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 wounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | see | my spear nsubj:pass; my shield cleft in twain conj | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my hauberk | pieces | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wound | past | my body | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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