Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 13
The Princes are young, and, maybe, they have not failed in their duty to you of set purpose, but rather unknowingly.
Who acts: Princes, sons · What happens: be, not fail · To what, where: duty
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 (Princes, sons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princes | det |
| 2 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 young | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 failed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 failed | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 failed | punct |
| 8 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 13 failed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 failed | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 failed | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 failed | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 failed | advmod |
| 13 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 young | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 duty | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 duty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 failed | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 duty | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 purpose | case |
| 20 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 purpose | amod |
| 21 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 duty | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 unknowingly | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 unknowingly | cc |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 25 unknowingly | advmod |
| 25 | unknowingly | unknowingly | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Princes | unknowingly, young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fail | present · perfect | sons = son | sons's duty to you of set purpose | maybe property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in duty=Eventuality |
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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