Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 12
The steel he brake through and the head beneath, and laid the man dead at his feet. "
Who acts: steel · What happens: break through, lay · To what, where: man, feet
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 steel | det |
| 2 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brake | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brake | nsubj |
| 4 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADV | _ | 4 brake | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 head | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brake | conj |
| 9 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 4 brake | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brake | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brake | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break through | present | the steel | Roland nsubj; the head conj; beneath, through property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the man | Roland's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme at foot=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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