Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 71
First Pinabel struck a mighty blow, and wounded Thierry on the right cheek, coming near to slay him outright.
Who acts: Pinabel · What happens: strike, wound, come, slay · To what, where: mighty blow, Thierry, right cheek, Pinabel
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 (Pinabel), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 struck | advmod |
| 2 | Pinabel | Pinabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blow | det |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blow | amod |
| 6 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wounded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wounded | cc |
| 9 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | conj |
| 10 | Thierry | Thierry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wounded | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cheek | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cheek | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cheek | amod |
| 14 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wounded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 coming | punct |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wounded | advcl |
| 17 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 coming | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 slay | mark |
| 19 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 coming | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slay | obj |
| 21 | outright | outright | ADV | _ | 19 slay | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Pinabel | a mighty blow | first property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | |||
| 2 | wound | past | Pinabel not said here | Thierry | the right cheek | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thierry=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | come | gerund | Pinabel not said here | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slay | to-infinitive | Pinabel not said here | Pinabel | outright property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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