Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 158
He drave the point through the upper rim of his shield and through his corslet, deep into his side, and laid him dead on the field.
Who acts: Naymes · What happens: drave, lay · To what, where: point, upper rim, Naymes, field
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 (Naymes), 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 drave | nsubj |
| 2 | drave | drave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 point | det |
| 4 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 rim | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rim | det |
| 7 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rim | amod |
| 8 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shield | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shield | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rim | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 corslet | cc |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 corslet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 corslet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | corslet | corslet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shield | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 side | punct |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 20 side | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 side | nmod:poss |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laid | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 laid | cc |
| 23 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drave | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laid | obj |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 laid | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 field | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 field | det |
| 28 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drave | past | Naymes | the point | the upper rim of Naymes's shield and Naymes's corslet | into Naymes's side | tree rules | ||
| 2 | lay | past | Naymes not said here | Naymes | the field | dead property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on field=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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