Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 121
Nor would he grant him any further grace, save that ten knights should go with him.
Who acts: Nor, that · What happens: grant, save, go · To what, where: further grace, King
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 (Nor, that), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grant | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grant | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grant | nsubj |
| 4 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grant | obj |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 grace | det |
| 7 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grace | amod |
| 8 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grant | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 grant | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 go | nsubj |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 knights | nummod |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 save | ccomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | would | Nor | any further grace | King | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal grace=Theme | |||
| 2 | save | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | should | that | with King; ten knights nsubj | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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