Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 105
Then said the King, "Did the vanquished man confess?"
Who acts: King, vanquished man · What happens: say, vanquish, confess · 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 (King, vanquished man), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 confess | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 confess | punct |
| 7 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 confess | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 confess | nsubj |
| 11 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 confess | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 confess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the King | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | vanquish in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | confess in a quote | past · do-support | the vanquished man | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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