Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 11

He opened his eyes but not a word did he speak save this only, "Fellow, you are none of ours," and he smote him a mighty blow upon his helmet.

Who acts: Roland, eyes, you · What happens: open, speak, save, be, smite · To what, where: this, none, fellow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, eyes, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 speak	nsubj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 word	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 word	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	conj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 speak	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 speak	nsubj
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 opened	ccomp
12	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 speak	xcomp
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 save	obj
14	only	only	ADV	_	12 save	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Fellow	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Fellow	punct
17	Fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 save	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 none	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 none	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 none	cop
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 Fellow	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 ours	case
23	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 none	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 none	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 none	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 smote	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 smote	nsubj
28	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 smote	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 blow	det
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 blow	amod
32	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smote	obj
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 helmet	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 helmet	nmod:poss
35	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 blow	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	Roland			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past · do-support	Roland's eyes but a word		Roland nsubj	tree rules
3	save	infinitive	Roland's eyes but a word not said here	this	Fellow parataxis	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	you	none	of ours	tree rules
5	smite	past	Roland	fellow	a mighty blow obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer blow=Result

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, The Death of Roland, sentence 11