Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 6
The fellow had feigned death, and had laid himself down among the slain, having covered his body and his face with blood.
What happens: feign, lay down, cover · To what, where: fellow, Roland, slain, body
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fellow | det |
| 2 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feigned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feigned | aux |
| 4 | feigned | feign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feigned | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laid | aux |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 feigned | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 laid | compound:prt |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 slain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 slain | det |
| 14 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 covered | aux |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 feigned | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 face | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 body | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feign | past · perfect · passive | the fellow | death obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay down | past · perfect | Roland | the slain | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme among slain=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cover | gerund · perfect | Roland's body and Roland's face with blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=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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