Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 163
He struck King Canaben through the vizor of his helmet with his boar-spear, and with the one blow laid him dead to the ground.
Who acts: thanks, one blow · What happens: strike, lay · To what, where: King Canaben, vizor, thanks
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 (thanks, one blow), 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 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Canaben | compound |
| 4 | Canaben | Canaben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 vizor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vizor | det |
| 7 | vizor | vizor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 helmet | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vizor | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 spear | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spear | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 boar | punct |
| 15 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helmet | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 laid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 laid | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 blow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blow | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blow | compound |
| 21 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | nsubj |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 laid | obj |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 laid | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 ground | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ground | det |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | thanks | King Canaben | the vizor of thanks's helmet with thanks's boar spear | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent canaben=Instrument | |||
| 2 | lay | past | the one blow | thanks | to the ground; dead property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
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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