Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 25
Now Amaury's purpose was double, either that Huon and his brother should be slain, or if they should slay Charlot, then they should be accused to the King of this deed and suffer accordingly.
Who acts: purpose, Huon, Amaury · What happens: be, slay, accuse, suffer, purpose · To what, where: Charlot, Huon
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 (purpose, Huon, Amaury), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 double | advmod |
| 2 | Amaury | Amaury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Amaury | case |
| 4 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 double | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 double | cop |
| 6 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slain | punct |
| 8 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 16 slain | cc:preconj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 slain | mark |
| 10 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 slain | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brother | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Huon | conj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 slain | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 slain | cop |
| 16 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 double | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slay | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 slay | cc |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 slay | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slay | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 slay | aux |
| 22 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 slain | parataxis |
| 23 | Charlot | Charlot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 slay | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 accused | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 accused | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 accused | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 accused | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 accused | aux:pass |
| 29 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 slay | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 King | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 accused | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 deed | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 deed | det |
| 35 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 accused | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 suffer | cc |
| 37 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 slay | conj |
| 38 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 37 suffer | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 double | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Amaury's purpose | now | double property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | should | Huon and two's brother | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slay a condition, not said to happen | should | Huon | Charlot | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charlot=Patient | ||||
| 4 | accuse | should · passive | Huon | then | to the King; of this deed | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme of deed=Attribute | |||
| 5 | suffer | present | Huon not said here | accordingly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | purpose | Amaury | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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