Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 35
That," said he, "is Roland's horn; he never had sounded it were he not in battle with the enemy."
Who acts: King, horn · What happens: say, be, not sound, not be · To what, where: That, horn, battle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, horn), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | obl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 That | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 That | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 horn | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 horn | cop |
| 9 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 horn | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Roland | case |
| 11 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sounded | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sounded | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 sounded | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sounded | aux |
| 16 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 battle | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 battle | cop |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 battle | nsubj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 battle | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 battle | case |
| 22 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sounded | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 enemy | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 enemy | det |
| 25 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 battle | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | That | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | King | Roland's horn | Roland nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not sound | past · perfect | King | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | horn | battle | with the enemy; King nsubj | 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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