Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 43

Roland came with all speed, and saw his friend, how he lay all pale and fainting on the ground and how the blood gushed in great streams from his wound. "

Who acts: Roland, blood · What happens: come, see, lie, faint, gush, wound · To what, where: friend, all, ground, great streams

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, blood), 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	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 speed	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 speed	det
5	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 lay	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 lay	obj
16	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 all	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fainting	cc
18	fainting	faint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 pale	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fainting	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gushed	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 gushed	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 blood	det
25	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gushed	nsubj
26	gushed	gush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ground	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 streams	case
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 streams	amod
29	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gushed	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 wound	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wound	nmod:poss
32	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 streams	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Roland			with all speed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past		Roland's friend			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
3	lie	past	Roland	all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme
4	faint	gerund	Roland not said here		the ground		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	gush	participle	the blood		great streams from Roland's wound		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Location
6	wound		Roland				nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 43