Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 43

Roland, when he heard these words, was well-nigh beside himself with anger, and cried, "Before the sun set, thou shalt see what we can do."

Who acts: Maradas, thou, we · What happens: hear, be, cry, see, do · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maradas, thou, we), 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	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 himself	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Roland	acl:relcl
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Roland	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 himself	cop
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 nigh	advmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 well	punct
12	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	14 himself	advmod
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 cried	parataxis
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 anger	case
16	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 himself	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
22	Before	before	ADP	_	25 set	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 set	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	compound
25	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 see	nsubj
28	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cried	ccomp
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 do	obj
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 see	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Maradas	this words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	is	past				beside Maradas; with anger; nigh property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	shall	thou		before the sun set		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do in a quote	can	we			what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 43