Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 111
To Huon he said, for the young man knelt before him with much humbleness, "Will you do that thing which I command?"
Who acts: Naymes, young man, Huon, thing · What happens: say, kneel, do, command · To what, where: Huon, thing · 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 (Naymes, young man, Huon, thing), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 Huon | case |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knelt | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 knelt | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knelt | nsubj |
| 10 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knelt | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 humbleness | case |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 humbleness | amod |
| 15 | humbleness | humbleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knelt | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 18 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knelt | conj |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 thing | det |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 command | nsubj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 command | nsubj |
| 25 | command | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 thing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Naymes | Huon | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huon=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kneel | past | the young man | before Naymes | with much humbleness | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | Huon | that thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | command in a quote | present | that thing | I nsubj | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: 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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