Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 48
But the Duke himself sprang lightly from the ground, and fought right valiantly on foot, slaying sundry of those who thought to take him alive.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: spring, fight, slay, think, take · To what, where: ground, foot, sundry, Duke
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 sprang | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 Duke | nmod |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 5 sprang | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fought | cc |
| 12 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 valiantly | advmod |
| 14 | valiantly | valiantly | ADV | _ | 12 fought | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slaying | punct |
| 18 | slaying | slay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 fought | advcl |
| 19 | sundry | sundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slaying | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 sundry | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 those | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thought | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 take | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the Duke Duke | the ground | lightly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ground=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fight | past | the Duke Duke not said here | foot | valiantly property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | slay | gerund | the Duke Duke not said here | sundry of those | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sundry=Patient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | who nsubj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | Duke | alive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=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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