Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 60
Mighty blows did they both deal, and the men of France were in great fear.
Who acts: Mighty blows, blows, men · What happens: do, deal, be · To what, where: great fear
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 (Mighty blows, blows, men), 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 | Mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blows | amod |
| 2 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deal | nsubj |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 deal | nsubj |
| 6 | deal | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fear | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fear | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 France | case |
| 12 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fear | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fear | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fear | amod |
| 16 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mighty blows | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | deal | present | blows = blow | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the men of France | great fear | tree rules |
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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