Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 13
But Roland cried again, "Strike home, men; have no mercy on these heathen dogs."
Who acts: Roland · What happens: cry, strike, have · To what, where: men, mercy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 cried | cc |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Strike | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Strike | punct |
| 7 | Strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | conj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 Strike | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 men | punct |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Strike | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 mercy | det |
| 14 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 dogs | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 dogs | det |
| 17 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dogs | compound |
| 18 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mercy | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Roland | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | strike in a quote | infinitive | Roland not said here | men | home property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | no mercy | on this heathen dogs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=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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