Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 33
And when Count Roland saw that he could not break the sword, he spake again but with more content in his heart. "
Who acts: Count · What happens: see, not break, speak · To what, where: sword · 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 (Count), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Count | flat |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 break | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 break | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 break | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 break | advmod |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 break | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spake | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spake | nsubj |
| 15 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 break | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 break | advmod |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 content | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 content | case |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 content | amod |
| 20 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 break | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 content | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Count | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not break | could | Count | the sword | again | more content in Count's heart conj | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Patient | ||
| 3 | speak speech: other | Count | tree rules |
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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