Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 93
After a while an evil chance fell upon them, for Guichard was so sorely wounded in the thigh that he could no longer stand upon his feet.
Who acts: evil chance, Guichard · What happens: fall, wound, stand · To what, where: Guichard, thigh, feet
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 (evil chance, Guichard), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chance | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chance | amod |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wounded | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 wounded | mark |
| 12 | Guichard | Guichard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wounded | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wounded | aux:pass |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 sorely | advmod |
| 15 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 16 wounded | advmod |
| 16 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fell | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 thigh | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thigh | det |
| 19 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wounded | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 stand | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stand | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 stand | aux |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 stand | advmod |
| 25 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wounded | advcl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stand | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a evil chance | while | upon favour | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | |||
| 2 | wound | past · passive | Guichard | the thigh | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | stand | could | Guichard | Guichard's feet | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon foot=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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