Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 28
It was a marvellous weapon, for it had in its hilt the iron of the spear with which the side of the Lord Christ was pierced as He hung upon the cross.
Who acts: sword, King · What happens: be, have, pierce, hang · To what, where: marvellous weapon, hilt, side, cross
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 (sword, King), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 weapon | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weapon | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 weapon | det |
| 4 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weapon | amod |
| 5 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 had | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weapon | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hilt | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hilt | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 iron | det |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hilt | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 spear | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spear | det |
| 17 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 iron | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 pierced | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Christ | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Christ | det |
| 24 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Christ | compound |
| 25 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 pierced | aux:pass |
| 27 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 spear | acl:relcl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 hung | mark |
| 29 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hung | nsubj |
| 30 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 pierced | advcl |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 cross | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cross | det |
| 33 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hung | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 weapon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sword | a marvellous weapon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | sword | sword's hilt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pierce | past · passive | the side of the Lord Christ | with the spear | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | hang | past | King | the cross | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon cross=Location |
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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