Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 164
Elsewhere in the field the Emir wrought great havoc in the ranks of France, slaying chief after chief, among them the old man Richard, Duke of the Normans.
What happens: slay · To what, where: chief, wrought great havoc
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: 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 | Elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 9 havoc | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 field | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 field | det |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Elsewhere | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 havoc | det |
| 6 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 havoc | nsubj |
| 7 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 havoc | amod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 havoc | amod |
| 9 | havoc | havoc | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ranks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ranks | det |
| 12 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 havoc | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 France | case |
| 14 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ranks | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slaying | punct |
| 16 | slaying | slay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 havoc | conj |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slaying | obj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 chief | case |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slaying | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Richard | punct |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 Richard | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Richard | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 slaying | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Duke | punct |
| 28 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Richard | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Normans | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Normans | det |
| 31 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Duke | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 havoc | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | gerund | chief | after chief | Richard among chiefs the old man and Duke of the Normans obj | tree rules |
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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