Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 82
Roland came out of his swoon and lifted himself from the ground.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: come out, lift, swoon · To what, where: swoon, Roland, ground
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 (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 | 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 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 swoon | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 swoon | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 swoon | nmod:poss |
| 6 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lifted | cc |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 lifted | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Roland | Roland's swoon | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient swoon=Result | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | Roland not said here | Roland | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | swoon | Roland | nom swoon «event intransitive»: 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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