Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 33
Then Roland blew his horn a second time; with great pain and anguish of body he blew it, and the red blood gushed from his lips; but the sound was heard yet further than at first.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: blow, gush, hear, pain · To what, where: horn, red blood, lips, sound, body
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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 blew | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 blew | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 pain | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pain | amod |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blew | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 anguish | cc |
| 14 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pain | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pain | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 blew | nsubj |
| 18 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 blew | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blood | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 blood | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 blood | det |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blood | amod |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | parataxis |
| 25 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 blood | acl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 lips | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lips | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gushed | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 heard | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 heard | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sound | det |
| 32 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 heard | aux:pass |
| 34 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 blood | conj |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 36 further | advmod |
| 36 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 heard | advmod |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 first | case |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 first | case |
| 39 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 further | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Roland | Roland's horn | then; time | the red blood parataxis | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||
| 2 | blow | past | Roland | horn | with great pain of body and anguish | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | gush | participle | the red blood not said here | Roland's lips | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from lip=Source | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · passive | the sound | yet | far property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | pain | body | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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