Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 49
Also he took from him his sword Joyous, and from Roland his sword Durendal, and the sword which Oliver carried, Hautclere by name.
Who acts: King, Oliver · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: sword
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (King, Oliver), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | Joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Roland | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Roland | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Roland | case |
| 12 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Roland | appos |
| 15 | Durendal | Durendal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sword | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sword | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sword | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sword | det |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Roland | appos |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 carried | obj |
| 21 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sword | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hautclere | punct |
| 24 | Hautclere | Hautclere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 name | case |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | King's sword | from Mawgis; Roland parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | carry | past | Oliver | the sword | by name; Hautclere obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme which=Beneficiary hautclere=Value |
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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