Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 59
And he told the Duke of his dream, how Ganelon had broken the spear that he held in his hands.
Who acts: Roland, Ganelon · What happens: tell, break, hold, dream · To what, where: Duke, spear, hands · 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, Ganelon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Duke | det |
| 5 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dream | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dream | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Duke | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 broken | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 broken | advmod |
| 11 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 broken | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | aux |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spear | det |
| 15 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broken | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 held | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | nsubj |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 held | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Roland | the Duke of Roland's dream | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent duke=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | break | past · perfect | Ganelon | the spear | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | Roland | Roland's hands | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 4 | dream | Roland | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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