Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 37

And Guichard laid his spear in rest, and charged at the Earl Guyon, who was leader of the vanguard, and smote him so strongly that he fell dead to the ground.

Who acts: Guichard, Earl · What happens: lay, charge, be, smote, fall · To what, where: spear, rest, Earl, leader, Guichard

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 (Guichard, Earl), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 laid	cc
2	Guichard	Guichard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spear	nmod:poss
5	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 rest	case
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 charged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 charged	cc
10	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 laid	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 Earl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Earl	det
13	Earl	Earl	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 charged	obl
14	Guyon	Guyon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Earl	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leader	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 leader	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 leader	cop
18	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Earl	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 vanguard	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 vanguard	det
21	vanguard	vanguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leader	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 smote	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 smote	cc
24	smote	smote	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 charged	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 smote	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 strongly	advmod
27	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	24 smote	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fell	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 smote	advcl
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fell	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Guichard	Guichard's spear	rest		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme in rest=Destination
2	charge	participle			the Earl		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at earl=Trajectory
3	is a	past	the Earl	leader		of the vanguard	tree rules
4	smote	infinitive		Guichard		strongly property	tree rules
5	fall	past	Guichard			to the ground; dead property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 37