Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 38

He laid himself down with his head upon the grass, putting under him his horn and his sword, with his face turned towards the heathen foe.

Who acts: Roland, face · What happens: lay down, put, turn · To what, where: Roland, grass, horn, heathen foe

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 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	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 laid	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 laid	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 grass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 putting	punct
12	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 laid	advcl
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 putting	obl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horn	nmod:poss
16	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 putting	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sword	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sword	nmod:poss
19	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horn	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 turned	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 face	nmod:poss
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	nsubj
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 foe	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 foe	det
27	heathen	heathen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 foe	amod
28	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	Roland	Roland	the grass	with Roland's head	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon grass=Destination
2	put	gerund	Roland not said here	Roland's horn and Roland's sword		under Roland	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme under he=Destination
3	turn	past	Roland's face		the heathen foe		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards foe=Trajectory

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 38