Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 51
Then came King Charles himself, his spear in rest, and smote Gerard on the shield so strongly that he overthrew both man and horse.
Who acts: Charles · What happens: come, smite, overthrow · To what, where: spear, Gerard, man
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 (Charles), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 Charles | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spear | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spear | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smote | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smote | cc |
| 13 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 smote | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shield | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shield | det |
| 17 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smote | obl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 strongly | advmod |
| 19 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 13 smote | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 overthrew | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 overthrew | nsubj |
| 22 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 smote | advcl |
| 23 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 overthrew | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 horse | cc |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 man | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Charles King Charles | Charles's spear in rest | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | smite | past | Charles King Charles not said here | Gerard | on the shield; strongly property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent gerard=Instrument on shield=Patient | |||
| 3 | overthrow | past | Charles | both man and horse | tree rules |
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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