Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 79
Then the two, setting their spears in rest, charged at each other, and this so fiercely that their spears were broken in pieces and their horses borne to the ground.
Who acts: two · What happens: set, charge, break, bear · To what, where: spears, rest, each, this, pieces
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 | 5 setting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 setting | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 setting | punct |
| 5 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 setting | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 rest | case |
| 9 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 setting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 charged | punct |
| 11 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 setting | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 charged | obl |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 broken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 broken | cc |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 broken | nsubj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 broken | advmod |
| 19 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 24 broken | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 broken | mark |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 spears | nmod:poss |
| 22 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 broken | aux:pass |
| 24 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 charged | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 pieces | case |
| 26 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 broken | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 horses | cc |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 horses | nmod:poss |
| 29 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 pieces | conj |
| 30 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 pieces | acl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 ground | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ground | det |
| 33 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 borne | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | gerund | the two | men's spears | rest | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme in rest=Destination | ||
| 2 | charge | participle | the two not said here | each | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | this | pieces and spears's horses | spears's spears nsubj:pass; fiercely property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | bear | participle | pieces and spears's horses not said here | to the ground | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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