Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 38
Then Roland turned to the King and said, "Give me the bow that you hold in your hand.
Who acts: Roland, you · What happens: turn, say, give, hold · To what, where: bow, Roland, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, you), 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 turned | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Give | punct |
| 11 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Give | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bow | det |
| 14 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Give | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hold | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hold | nsubj |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bow | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Roland | then | to the King result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Roland not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | the bow | Roland | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | present | you | the bow | your hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme in hand=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.
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