Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 15
So hot was the dispute that Berthelot called Reynaud by an ill name, and smote him on the face, whereupon Reynaud, lifting the chess board, that was of massy gold, smote Berthelot upon the head so strongly that he fell down dead.
Who acts: you, Berthelot, Reynaud, that, dispute · What happens: be, call, smote, lift, fall down · To what, where: dispute, Reynaud, face, chess board, Berthelot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Berthelot, Reynaud, that), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 hot | advmod |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 smote | advcl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hot | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dispute | det |
| 5 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 called | mark |
| 7 | Berthelot | Berthelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dispute | acl |
| 9 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 name | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 name | amod |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smote | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smote | cc |
| 16 | smote | smote | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 smote | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 face | det |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smote | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 smote | punct |
| 22 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 smote | advmod |
| 23 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 smote | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lifting | punct |
| 25 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 Reynaud | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 board | det |
| 27 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 board | compound |
| 28 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lifting | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gold | punct |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 gold | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 gold | cop |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 33 | massy | massy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 gold | amod |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Reynaud | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 smote | punct |
| 36 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 smote | conj |
| 37 | Berthelot | Berthelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 smote | obj |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 head | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 head | det |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 smote | obl |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 strongly | advmod |
| 42 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 36 smote | advmod |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 fell | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 fell | nsubj |
| 45 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 smote | advcl |
| 46 | down | down | ADV | _ | 45 fell | advmod |
| 47 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 fell | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | you not said here | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Berthelot | the dispute not said here | Reynaud | by a ill name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reynaud=Recipient | ||
| 3 | smote | imperative | you not said here | dispute | the face | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lift | gerund | Reynaud not said here | the chess board | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | that | of massy gold | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | smote | infinitive | Reynaud | Berthelot | upon the head; strongly, whereupon property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | fall down | past | dispute | dead, down 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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