Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 55
So saying they took from the god his sceptre and crown, and brake him to pieces with their staves.
Who acts: servants · What happens: say, take, break · To what, where: God · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (servants), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 god | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 god | det |
| 7 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sceptre | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 god | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crown | cc |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sceptre | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brake | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brake | cc |
| 14 | brake | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brake | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brake | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 staves | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 staves | nmod:poss |
| 20 | staves | stave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pieces | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | servants = servant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | servants = servant | from the god and God's sceptre and crown | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from god=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | break | infinitive | servants = servant not said here | God | to pieces with servants's staves result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result |
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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