Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 133
Roland heard the cry, and it went near to break his heart, so great was his wrath.
Who acts: Roland, cry · What happens: hear, go, break, be · To what, where: cry, heart, great wrath
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, cry), 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 | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cry | det |
| 4 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 9 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 break | mark |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 break | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrath | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wrath | amod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wrath | cop |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Roland | the cry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | cry | near property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | cry not said here | Roland's heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Roland not said here | Roland's great wrath | Roland nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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