Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 7
After a while Roland said again, "I shall blow my horn; King Charles will hear it, where he has encamped beyond the passes, and he and his host will come back." "
Who acts: Roland, Charles · What happens: say, blow, hear, encamp, come back · To what, where: horn · 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 (Roland, Charles), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blow | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 blow | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 blow | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 blow | aux |
| 11 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horn | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 hear | punct |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hear | aux |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hear | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 encamped | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 encamped | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 encamped | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 encamped | aux |
| 24 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 hear | advcl |
| 25 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 27 passes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 passes | det |
| 27 | passes | pass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 encamped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 come | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 come | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 come | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 come | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 host | nmod:poss |
| 33 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 encamped | conj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hear | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hear | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | again; while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | blow in a quote | shall | Roland | my horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | future | Charles King | horn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | encamp in a quote | present · perfect | Charles | beyond the passes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come back in a quote | future | Charles | Charles's host nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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