Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 99
Then Richard leapt upon the King, for he had been unbound, and the two wrestled together and fell to the earth.
Who acts: Richard, two · What happens: leapt, be, wrestle, fall
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard, two), 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 leapt | advmod |
| 2 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leapt | nsubj |
| 3 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leapt | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unbound | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 unbound | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 unbound | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 unbound | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 unbound | cop |
| 12 | unbound | unbound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leapt | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wrestled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wrestled | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 two | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 wrestled | nsubj |
| 17 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 unbound | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 wrestled | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leapt | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt | past | Richard | then | upon the King | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | Richard | unbound property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wrestle | participle | the two | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | Richard not said here | to the earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=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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