Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 74
On the helmet fell the blow, cleaving it in twain, and the skull beneath, so that the man's brain was scattered on the earth.
What happens: fall, cleave, scatter · To what, where: blow, helmet, twain, brain, earth
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 helmet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 helmet | det |
| 3 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blow | det |
| 6 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cleaving | punct |
| 8 | cleaving | cleave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fell | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cleaving | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 twain | case |
| 11 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cleaving | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 skull | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 skull | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skull | det |
| 15 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 15 skull | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scattered | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 scattered | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brain | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 man | case |
| 23 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 scattered | aux:pass |
| 25 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 earth | det |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scattered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the blow | the helmet | the skull obl | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient blow=Result | |||
| 2 | cleave | gerund | helmet | twain | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past · passive | the man's brain | the earth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on earth=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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