Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 46

So speaking he raised his right hand, with the gauntlet yet upon it, to the sky, and his head fell back upon his arm and the angels carried him to heaven.

Who acts: head, angels · What happens: speak, raise, fall back, carry · To what, where: right hand, gauntlet, arm, Lord, heaven · 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 (head, angels), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 raised	advmod
2	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 raised	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raised	nsubj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gauntlet	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 gauntlet	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gauntlet	det
11	gauntlet	gauntlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obl
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 it	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raised	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sky	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 sky	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sky	det
18	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	parataxis
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 fell	advmod
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 arm	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arm	nmod:poss
27	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 carried	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 angels	det
30	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 carried	nsubj
31	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fell	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 carried	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 heaven	case
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carried	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	raise	past		Lord's right hand	gauntlet	with the gauntlet; to the sky; Lord nsubj	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon it=Destination to sky=Initial_Location
3	fall back	past	Lord's head		Lord's arm		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon arm=Location
4	carry	past	the angels	Lord	heaven		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to heaven=Destination

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 46

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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 46