Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 41
This done he made a loud confession of his sins, stretching his hand to heaven. "
Who acts: done · What happens: make, stretch, confess · To what, where: loud confession, hand, sins
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 (done), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | det |
| 2 | done | done | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 confession | det |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 confession | amod |
| 7 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sins | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sins | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 confession | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretching | punct |
| 12 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stretching | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 heaven | case |
| 16 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stretching | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this done | a loud confession of done's sins | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confession=Product | ||||
| 2 | stretch | gerund | this done not said here | done's hand | to heaven result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to heaven=Result | |||
| 3 | confess | done's sins | nom confession «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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