Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 160
Half of the helmet and laces wherewith it was laced were shorn off by the stroke, and the edge of the sword touched the flesh itself.
Who acts: Half, stroke, edge · What happens: lace, shorn off, touch · To what, where: Half, flesh
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 (Half, stroke, edge), 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 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 laces | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 helmet | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 helmet | det |
| 4 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Half | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laces | cc |
| 6 | laces | lace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 shorn | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laced | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 laced | aux:pass |
| 10 | laced | lace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wherewith | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shorn | aux:pass |
| 12 | shorn | shorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 laces | advcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 shorn | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 stroke | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stroke | det |
| 16 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shorn | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 touched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 touched | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 edge | det |
| 20 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 touched | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sword | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sword | det |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 edge | nmod |
| 24 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 laces | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flesh | det |
| 26 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 touched | obj |
| 27 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 26 flesh | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 laces | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lace | present | Half of the helmet | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lace | past · passive | Half | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | shorn off | past · passive | the stroke | wherewith property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | touch | past | the edge of the sword | the flesh sword | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flesh=Co-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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