Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 47
Also drawing his sword he smote the Duke's horse so stoutly that it fell dead.
Who acts: Richard, horse · What happens: draw, smite, fall · To what, where: sword, horse
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 (Richard, horse), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 2 drawing | advmod |
| 2 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 smote | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawing | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 smote | nsubj |
| 6 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duke | det |
| 8 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Duke | case |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 stoutly | advmod |
| 12 | stoutly | stoutly | ADV | _ | 6 smote | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 fell | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 smote | advcl |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | Richard not said here | Richard's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smite | past | Richard | the Duke's horse | stoutly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | fall | past | horse | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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