Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 64
I saw how Alard was slain by an arrow by Frenchmen, and how Richard was hanged on an apple tree." "
Who acts: I, arrow · What happens: see, slay, hange · To what, where: Alard, Richard, apple tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, arrow), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 slain | advmod |
| 4 | Alard | Alard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 slain | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slain | aux:pass |
| 6 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 arrow | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 arrow | det |
| 9 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slain | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Frenchmen | case |
| 11 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 slain | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hanged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hanged | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 hanged | advmod |
| 15 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hanged | aux:pass |
| 17 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hanged | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 hanged | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | slay | past · passive | a arrow | Alard | by Frenchmen | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | hange | past · passive | Richard | a apple tree | tree rules |
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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