Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 9
Thereupon he took the sword in one hand, with the other he laid hold of Roland's beard.
Who acts: Roland, other · What happens: take, lay, hold · To what, where: sword, one hand, hold, beard
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, other), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hand | nummod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laid | punct |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 laid | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 laid | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | nsubj |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 beard | case |
| 17 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 beard | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Roland | case |
| 19 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hold | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Roland | the sword | one hand | thereupon property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | lay | past | the other | hold of Roland's beard | Roland nsubj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | |||
| 3 | hold | Roland's beard | nom hold «act 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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