Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 42

Forgive me, Lord," he cried, "my sins, little and great, all that I have committed since the day of my birth to this hour in which I am stricken to death."

Who acts: you, Lord, I · What happens: forgive, cry, commit, be · To what, where: me, sins, that · 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 (you, Lord, I), 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	Forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Forgive	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Lord	punct
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Forgive	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Forgive	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sins	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sins	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sins	nmod:poss
12	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 little	punct
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cried	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 great	cc
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 little	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 committed	punct
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 committed	det:predet
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 committed	nsubj:pass
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 committed	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 committed	aux
22	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cried	conj
23	since	since	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 committed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 birth	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 birth	nmod:poss
28	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 day	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 hour	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 hour	det
31	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 committed	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 stricken	obl
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 stricken	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 stricken	cop
36	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hour	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 death	case
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stricken	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Forgive	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Forgive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	imperative	you not said here	me		Lord vocative	tree rules
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Lord	my sins		little obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	commit	present · perfect · passive		that	day; hour	I nsubj	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	I		in this hour	to death; stricken property	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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 42