Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 26
So now he said to Charlot, "Yonder are Huon and Gerard; ride out against them, for they are but weaklings."
Who acts: two, Huon · What happens: say, be, ride out · To what, where: Charlot, Huon · 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 (two, Huon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Charlot | case |
| 6 | Charlot | Charlot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yonder | punct |
| 9 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 11 Huon | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Huon | cop |
| 11 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Gerard | cc |
| 13 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Huon | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ride | punct |
| 15 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 ride | advmod |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ride | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 weaklings | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 weaklings | case |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 weaklings | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 weaklings | cop |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 weaklings | cc |
| 24 | weaklings | weakling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ride | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ride | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | two | Charlot | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to charlot=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Huon and Gerard | Gerard conj; yonder property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride out in a quote | infinitive | against Huon; out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Huon | for weaklings | tree rules |
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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