Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 188
Fierce was the encounter between them, and many and sore were the blows they dealt the one to the other.
Who acts: Fierce, many blows · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: encounter, many blows, one, other
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 (Fierce, many blows), 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 | Fierce | Fierce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 encounter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 encounter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 encounter | det |
| 4 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 encounter | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dealt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dealt | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blows | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sore | cc |
| 11 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 many | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 blows | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blows | det |
| 14 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dealt | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dealt | nsubj |
| 16 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 encounter | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dealt | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 other | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dealt | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 encounter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fierce | the encounter | between son | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the many blows | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deal | past | the many blows | the one | the other | son nsubj | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to other=Recipient |
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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