Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 212
As soon as it was day King Charles bade his men break down all the things that the heathen counted holy.
Who acts: truth, King, men, heathen · What happens: be, bade, break down, count · To what, where: things
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 (truth, King, men, heathen), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 bade | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 day | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | obl |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | nsubj |
| 8 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 men | nmod:poss |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 break | nsubj |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bade | ccomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 break | compound:prt |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 things | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 break | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 counted | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heathen | det |
| 19 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 counted | nsubj |
| 20 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 things | acl:relcl |
| 21 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 counted | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | truth | as day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | King | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break down | present | King's men | all things | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | count | past | the heathen | all things | holy property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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