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" **Who acts:** Roland, Charles · **What happens:** say, blow, hear, encamp, come back · **To what, where:** horn · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Charles), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:32:7 # text = After a while Roland said again, "I shall blow my horn; King Charles will hear it, where he has encamped beyond the passes, and he and his host will come back." " 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 Roland Roland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:desc _ _ 16 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 encamped encamp VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 25 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 passes pass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 36 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland | | | | again; while | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **blow** *in a quote* | shall | Roland | my horn | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | | 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | future | Charles King | horn | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **encamp** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Charles | | | | | beyond the passes | tree rules | | 5 | **come back** *in a quote* | future | Charles | | | | | Charles's host *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/8/) - ↑ back to [How Roland Sounded His Horn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/)