Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 57

The spurs of both were broken; the corslets of both were broken through, and the belts of the horses were so torn that the saddles turned in their place.

Who acts: saddles · What happens: break, break through, tear, turn · To what, where: spurs, corslets, belts, place

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saddles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spurs	det
2	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broken	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 both	case
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 spurs	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 broken	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corslets	det
9	corslets	corslet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 broken	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 both	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 corslets	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 broken	aux:pass
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 broken	parataxis
14	through	through	ADV	_	13 broken	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 torn	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 torn	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 belts	det
18	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 torn	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 horses	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horses	det
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 belts	nmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 torn	aux:pass
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 torn	advmod
24	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 broken	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 turned	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 saddles	det
27	saddles	saddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 turned	nsubj
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 torn	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 place	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 place	nmod:poss
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		the spurs of both			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	break through	past · passive		the corslets of both		through property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	tear	past · passive		the belts of the horses			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	turn	past	the saddles		saddles's place		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in place=Trajectory

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 57