Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 63
Roland was very wroth to hear such villainous words, and charged fierce as a hungry wolf, with his sword Durendal drawn in his hand.
Who acts: Roland, sword · What happens: be, hear, charge, draw · To what, where: such villainous words, hand
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, sword), 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 | 4 wroth | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wroth | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 wroth | advmod |
| 4 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wroth | csubj |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 8 | villainous | villainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hear | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 charged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 charged | cc |
| 12 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wroth | parataxis |
| 13 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 charged | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 wolf | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wolf | det |
| 16 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wolf | amod |
| 17 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 charged | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drawn | punct |
| 19 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 23 drawn | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sword | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drawn | nsubj |
| 22 | Durendal | Durendal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sword | appos |
| 23 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 charged | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drawn | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wroth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Roland | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | such villainous words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | charge | past | as a hungry wolf; fierce property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | draw | participle | Conifer's sword | Conifer's hand | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination |
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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