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title: Then Roland blew his horn a second time; with great pain and anguish… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Roland blew his horn a second time; with great pain and anguish of body he blew it, and the red blood gushed from his lips; but the sound was heard yet further than at first. Who acts: Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Rolan
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 33

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Then Roland blew his horn a second time; with great pain and anguish of body he blew it, and the red blood gushed from his lips; but the sound was heard yet further than at first.

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**Who acts:** Roland · **What happens:** blow, gush, hear, pain · **To what, where:** horn, red blood, lips, sound, body

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:32:33
# text = Then Roland blew his horn a second time; with great pain and anguish of body he blew it, and the red blood gushed from his lips; but the sound was heard yet further than at first.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
25	gushed	gush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
35	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | Roland | Roland's horn |  |  | then; time | the red blood *parataxis* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** | past | Roland | horn |  |  |  | with great pain of body and anguish | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **gush** | participle |  | the red blood *not said here* |  | Roland's lips |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from lip=Source |
| 4 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the sound |  |  | yet | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pain** |  |  | body |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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