Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 102
But when Huon came near to take the sword, Amaury smote him on the arm, thinking to do him the same damage that he had himself endured.
Who acts: Huon, Amaury, horse · What happens: come, take, smite, think, do, have · To what, where: sword, horse
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, Amaury, horse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 smote | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 smote | advcl |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 11 | Amaury | Amaury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 smote | nsubj |
| 12 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 smote | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 arm | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 arm | det |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smote | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinking | punct |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 smote | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thinking | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 damage | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 damage | amod |
| 24 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 damage | acl:relcl |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 had | obj |
| 29 | endured | endure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 had | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Huon | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Huon not said here | the sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smite | past | Amaury | horse | on the arm | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on arm=Patient | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Amaury not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Amaury not said here | horse | the same damage obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | have | past | horse | horse | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | endure | participle | horse not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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.
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