Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 16

He raised himself and gathered all his strength together--ah me! how pale his face was!--and took in his hand his good sword Durendal.

Who acts: Roland, face · What happens: raise, gather, be, take · To what, where: Roland, strength, good sword, hand

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, face), 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 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 raised	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gathered	cc
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	conj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 strength	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 strength	nmod:poss
8	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	5 gathered	advmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
11	ah	ah	INTJ	_	12 me	discourse
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 raised	parataxis
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 pale	advmod
15	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raised	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 face	nmod:poss
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pale	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pale	cop
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 pale	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sword	nmod:poss
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sword	amod
28	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
29	Durendal	Durendal	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sword	appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	past	Roland	Roland		me parataxis	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	gather	past	Roland not said here	Roland's strength		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
3	is	past	Roland's face			pale property	tree rules
4	take	past		Roland's good sword	Roland's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Value in hand=Location

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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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 16