Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 48
He gave his sword and his armour to his servants, and laid himself down in sore distress upon the green grass under an olive-tree.
Who acts: Meanwhile · What happens: give, lay down · To what, where: sword, servants, Meanwhile, sore distress
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 (Meanwhile), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 armour | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 armour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sword | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 servants | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 servants | nmod:poss |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 laid | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 distress | case |
| 17 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 distress | amod |
| 18 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 grass | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grass | det |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grass | amod |
| 22 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 25 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tree | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 olive | punct |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Meanwhile | Meanwhile's sword and Meanwhile's armour | Meanwhile's servants | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sword=Theme to servant=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lay down | past | Meanwhile not said here | Meanwhile | sore distress | upon the green grass; under a olive tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in distress=Destination |
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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