Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 32
Loud rang the steel, but it brake not, bounding back as though it would rise to the sky.
Who acts: Loud, steel · What happens: ring, not break, bound back, rise · To what, where: steel, sky
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 (Loud, steel), 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 | Loud | Loud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rang | nsubj |
| 2 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 steel | det |
| 4 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rang | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brake | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 brake | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brake | nsubj |
| 8 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rang | parataxis |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 brake | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bounding | punct |
| 11 | bounding | bound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 brake | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 bounding | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 bounding | advmod |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 rise | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rise | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 rise | aux |
| 17 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bounding | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sky | det |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rise | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | Loud | the steel | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location steel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not break | present | steel | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bound back | gerund | steel not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rise | would | steel | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sky=Initial_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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