Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 150
Strike! strike for Charles and the Right!" cried all the men of France when they saw the Persian fall.
Who acts: Strike strike, men · What happens: cry, see · To what, where: men, Persian fall
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strike strike, men), 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 | Strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strike | compound |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strike | punct |
| 3 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Charles | case |
| 5 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 strike | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Right | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Right | det |
| 8 | Right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Charles | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 strike | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strike | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 men | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cried | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 France | case |
| 16 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fall | det |
| 21 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fall | amod |
| 22 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Strike strike for Charles | all men of France | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | men = man | the Persian fall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus |
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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