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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 157

When the Duke Naymes saw how the Prince Malprime was breaking the ranks of France, dealing death at every blow, he charged him, spear in rest.

Who acts: Duke Naymes, Malprime · What happens: see, break, deal, charge · To what, where: ranks, death, blow, Naymes

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 (Duke Naymes, Malprime), 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

advmoddetcompoundnsubjadvcladvmoddetnmod:descnsubjauxxcompdetobjcasenmodpunctadvclobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjobjpunctoblcasenmodpunctrootWhenADVtheDETDukePROPNNaymesPROPNsawVERBhowADVtheDETPrincePROPNMalprimePROPNwasAUXbreakingVERBtheDETranksNOUNofADPFrancePROPN,PUNCTdealingVERBdeathNOUNatADPeveryDETblowNOUN,PUNCThePRONchargedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTspearNOUNinADPrestNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int5 sawadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Naymesdet
3DukeDukePROPNNumber=Sing4 Naymescompound
4NaymesNaymesPROPNNumber=Sing5 sawnsubj
5sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 chargedadvcl
6howhowADVPronType=Int11 breakingadvmod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Malprimedet
8PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing9 Malprimenmod:desc
9MalprimeMalprimePROPNNumber=Sing11 breakingnsubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 breakingaux
11breakingbreakVERBVerbForm=Ger5 sawxcomp
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 ranksdet
13ranksrankNOUNNumber=Plur11 breakingobj
14ofofADP_15 Francecase
15FranceFrancePROPNNumber=Sing13 ranksnmod
16,,PUNCT_17 dealingpunct
17dealingdealVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 breakingadvcl
18deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing17 dealingobj
19atatADP_21 blowcase
20everyeveryDETPronType=Tot21 blowdet
21blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing17 dealingobl
22,,PUNCT_5 sawpunct
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 chargednsubj
24chargedchargeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 chargedobj
26,,PUNCT_27 spearpunct
27spearspearNOUNNumber=Sing24 chargedobl
28ininADP_29 restcase
29restrestNOUNNumber=Sing27 spearnmod
30..PUNCT_24 chargedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe Duke Naymesvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2breakpast · progressivethe Malprime Princethe ranks of Francevn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rank=Patient
3dealgerundthe Malprime Prince not said heredeathevery blowvn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
4chargepastMalprimeNaymesspear in rest oblvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme

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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