Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 34
So all the trumpets in the host sounded a blast; all the valleys and hills re-echoed with the sound; sore discouraged were the heathen when they heard it. "
Who acts: trumpets, hills · What happens: sound, re-echo, be, hear · To what, where: blast, valleys, sore discouraged heathen
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trumpets, hills), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 trumpets | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trumpets | det |
| 4 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sounded | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 host | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 host | det |
| 7 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trumpets | nmod |
| 8 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blast | det |
| 10 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounded | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 valleys | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 valleys | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 valleys | det |
| 14 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sounded | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hills | cc |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 valleys | conj |
| 17 | re-echoed | re-echo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 valleys | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sound | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sound | det |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 re-echoed | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 heathen | punct |
| 22 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 heathen | amod |
| 23 | discouraged | discouraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 heathen | amod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heathen | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heathen | det |
| 26 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounded | parataxis |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 heard | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 heard | nsubj |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heathen | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 heard | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 heathen | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 heathen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | all trumpets in the host | a blast | all valleys and hills obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blast=Theme | |||
| 2 | re-echo | participle | all valleys and hills not said here | with the sound | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the sore discouraged heathen | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | hills = hill | blast | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/34/34/