Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 91
A great slaughter did they make of the pagans, but they that were willing to be christened King Oberon saved alive.
Who acts: great slaughter, Gerames, King · What happens: make, be, christen, save
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great slaughter, Gerames, King), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 slaughter | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slaughter | amod |
| 3 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pagans | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pagans | det |
| 9 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 willing | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 willing | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 willing | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 willing | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 willing | cop |
| 15 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 make | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 christened | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 christened | aux:pass |
| 18 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 willing | xcomp |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 saved | nsubj |
| 20 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 King | flat |
| 21 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 christened | ccomp |
| 22 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 saved | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · do-support | a great slaughter | of the pagans; Gerames = gerame nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Gerames = gerame | that nsubj; willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | christen | to-infinitive · passive | Gerames = gerame not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | save | past | King | alive property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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