Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 36
On the other hand, Ogier the Dane rode out from the King's army, his spear in rest, and smote a knight, Ponson by name, so that he fell dead upon the earth.
Who acts: Ogier · What happens: ride out, smote, fall · To what, where: other hand, knight, earth
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogier), 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 | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dane | det |
| 8 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ogier | appos |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 rode | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 army | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 army | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spear | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 spear | nmod:poss |
| 18 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 army | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rest | case |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spear | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 smote | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 smote | cc |
| 23 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rode | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 knight | det |
| 25 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 smote | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Ponson | punct |
| 27 | Ponson | Ponson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 smote | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 name | case |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 smote | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fell | punct |
| 31 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 34 fell | mark |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 so | fixed |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fell | nsubj |
| 34 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rode | conj |
| 35 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fell | xcomp |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 earth | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 earth | det |
| 38 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fell | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride out | past | Ogier | the other hand | from the King's army | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from army=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | smote | infinitive | Ogier not said here | a knight | by name; Ponson obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Ogier | the earth | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |
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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