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title: Roland came with all speed, and saw his friend, how he lay all pale… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Roland came with all speed, and saw his friend, how he lay all pale and fainting on the ground and how the blood gushed in great streams from his wound. " Who acts: Roland, blood. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain, with 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 43

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Roland came with all speed, and saw his friend, how he lay all pale and fainting on the ground and how the blood gushed in great streams from his wound. "

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**Who acts:** Roland, blood · **What happens:** come, see, lie, faint, gush, wound · **To what, where:** friend, all, ground, great streams

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, blood), 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:pg75339:33:43
# text = Roland came with all speed, and saw his friend, how he lay all pale and fainting on the ground and how the blood gushed in great streams from his wound. "
1	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gushed	gush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Roland |  |  |  |  | with all speed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | Roland's friend |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Roland | all |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme |
| 4 | **faint** | gerund | Roland *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **gush** | participle | the blood |  |  | great streams from Roland's wound |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Location |
| 6 | **wound** |  | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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