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" **Who acts:** Lucifer, much, man · **What happens:** be, speak, smite, break, fall · **To what, where:** wits, Duke, bone, floor · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lucifer, much, man), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:22:33 # text = Lucifer was almost out of his wits for anger, but before he could as much as speak the Duke smote him with the brand upon the neck so strongly that the bone was broken, and the man fell dead upon the floor. " 1 Lucifer Lucifer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 almost almost ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wits wit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 12 before before SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nsubj _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Duke Duke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 smote smite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 41 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 42 upon upon ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Lucifer | | | Lucifer's wits | | for anger; almost *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | | the Duke | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **smite** | past | much Lucifer | Duke | | | | with the brand upon the neck; strongly *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with brand=Instrument | | 4 | **break** | past · passive | | the bone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **fall** | past | the man | | | the floor | | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon floor=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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/22/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/22/34/) - ↑ back to [Of the Doings of the French Knights](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/22/)