Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 46
After a while Duke Richard of Normandy rode at Duke Benes, piercing his shield with his spear, and bruising him sorely on the body.
Who acts: Duke Richard · What happens: ride, pierce, bruise · To what, where: shield, Richard, body
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 (Duke Richard), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 4 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Richard | compound |
| 5 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Normandy | case |
| 7 | Normandy | Normandy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Richard | nmod |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Duke | case |
| 10 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 11 | Benes | Benes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Duke | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 piercing | punct |
| 13 | piercing | pierce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rode | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shield | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piercing | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 spear | case |
| 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 | 13 piercing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bruising | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bruising | cc |
| 21 | bruising | bruise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rode | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bruising | obj |
| 23 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 21 bruising | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 body | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 body | det |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bruising | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Duke Richard of Normandy | while | at Duke | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | pierce | gerund | Duke Richard of Normandy not said here | Richard's shield | with Richard's spear | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shield=Patient with spear=Instrument | |||
| 3 | bruise | gerund | Duke Richard of Normandy not said here | Richard | the body | sorely property | vn carve-21.2-1 «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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