Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 183
Many he slew, among them the heathen knight who carried the Emir's standard.
Who acts: Many, heathen knight · What happens: slay, carry · To what, where: standard
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 (Many, heathen knight), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slew | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slew | nsubj |
| 3 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 them | punct |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slew | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 8 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knight | amod |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 them | appos |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 carried | nsubj |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knight | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Emir | det |
| 13 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 standard | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Emir | case |
| 15 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | Many | among men = man; King nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the heathen knight | the Emir's standard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=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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