Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 27

Then Roland began to bemoan himself, "O my good Durendal," he said, "how bright and clear thou art, shining as shines the sun!

Who acts: Roland · What happens: begin, bemoan, say, shine · To what, where: Roland, sun · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bemoan	mark
5	bemoan	bemoan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 bemoan	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Durendal	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Durendal	punct
9	O	o	INTJ	_	12 Durendal	discourse
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Durendal	nmod:poss
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Durendal	amod
12	Durendal	Durendal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bemoan	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bright	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 bright	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 bright	advmod
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 art	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 clear	cc
22	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bright	conj
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 art	nsubj
24	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shining	punct
26	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 shines	mark
28	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 shining	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shines	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Roland		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bemoan	to-infinitive	Roland not said here	Roland		my good Durendal obl	tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	Roland				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	shine in a quote	gerund	Roland not said here				tree rules
5	shine in a quote	present	Roland not said here	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sun=Theme

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/pg75339/35/27/

🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 27