Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 80
Then he cut the cords of the drawbridge, and let it fall, and he slew also the guards that kept watch on the wall.
Who acts: Herneger, drawbridge, guards · What happens: cut, let, fall, slay, keep · To what, where: cords, drawbridge, guards, watch, wall
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 (Herneger, drawbridge, guards), 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 | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cords | det |
| 5 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cut | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 drawbridge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 drawbridge | det |
| 8 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cords | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cut | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slew | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slew | nsubj |
| 17 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 slew | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guards | det |
| 20 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slew | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 kept | nsubj |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guards | acl:relcl |
| 23 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kept | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 wall | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Herneger | the cords of the drawbridge | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Product | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Herneger not said here | drawbridge | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | drawbridge not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | slay | past | Herneger | the guards | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | the guards | watch | the wall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme on wall=Location |
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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