Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 51
There was not one of them but said to his comrade, "If we find Roland yet alive, what mighty strokes will we strike for him!"
Who acts: one, we, mighty strokes · What happens: be, say, find, strike · To what, where: comrade, Roland · 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 (one, we, mighty strokes), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 comrade | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 11 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 alive | advmod |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 find | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 strike | punct |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 strike | obj |
| 22 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 strokes | amod |
| 23 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 strike | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 strike | aux |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 strike | nsubj |
| 26 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 find | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 strike | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one of flags | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | one of flags not said here | Mighty's comrade | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to comrade=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | Roland | alive property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Topic | |||
| 4 | strike in a quote | future | mighty strokes | for Mighty; what obj; we nsubj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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