Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 44
And Duke Naymes cried out, "Roland is in trouble; on my conscience he is fighting with the enemy.
Who acts: Duke, Roland · What happens: cry out, be, fight · To what, where: trouble, conscience · 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 (Duke, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duke | flat |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cried | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trouble | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 trouble | punct |
| 8 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 trouble | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 trouble | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fighting | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 conscience | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 conscience | nmod:poss |
| 15 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fighting | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fighting | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fighting | aux |
| 18 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cried | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 enemy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 enemy | det |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fighting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | Duke | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Roland | trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | present · progressive | Roland | my conscience | with the enemy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with enemy=Co-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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