Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 104
Then said Huon, "Take this, false traitor!" and he slew the man with one stroke, but for repentance or confession there was no space of time.
Who acts: Huon, stroke, space · What happens: say, take, slay, be · To what, where: this, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, stroke, space), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 6 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 traitor | punct |
| 9 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 traitor | amod |
| 10 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slew | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slew | nsubj |
| 15 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slew | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 stroke | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 stroke | nummod |
| 20 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slew | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 was | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 was | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 repentance | case |
| 24 | repentance | repentance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 was | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 confession | cc |
| 26 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 repentance | conj |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 was | expl |
| 28 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 space | det |
| 30 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 was | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 space | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Huon | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | this | false traitor obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | past | stroke | the man | with one stroke | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Patient with stroke=Instrument | |||
| 4 | be | past | no space of time | there | for repentance or confession | vn exist-47.1 «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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