Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 17
Before him was a great rock, and on this in his rage and pain he smote ten mighty blows.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: be, smite, rage · To what, where: great rock, ten mighty blows
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), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 rock | mark |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rock | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rock | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rock | amod |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rage | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rage | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rage | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 rage | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rage | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rock | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pain | cc |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rage | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 smote | nsubj |
| 17 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rage | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 blows | nummod |
| 19 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blows | amod |
| 20 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smote | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Roland | a great rock and Roland's rage this and pain | Roland's rage this and pain conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | smite | past | Roland | ten mighty blows | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blow=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | rage | Roland | nom rage «feeling 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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