Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 48
He drave his spear through the cloak and through the gown that Huon wore, and through the shirt that was under the gown, but the body he missed.
Who acts: Prince, Huon, shirt, body · What happens: drave, wear, be, miss · To what, where: spear, cloak, gown
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 (Prince, Huon, shirt, body), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drave | nsubj |
| 2 | drave | drave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 spear | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 cloak | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cloak | det |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gown | cc |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 gown | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gown | det |
| 11 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloak | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wore | obj |
| 13 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wore | nsubj |
| 14 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gown | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shirt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shirt | cc |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 shirt | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shirt | det |
| 19 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 gown | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gown | cop |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 gown | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gown | det |
| 24 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shirt | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 missed | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 missed | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 body | det |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 missed | nsubj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 missed | nsubj |
| 30 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drave | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drave | past | Prince | Prince's spear | the cloak and the gown | through the shirt | tree rules | ||
| 2 | wear | past | Huon | the gown | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the shirt | the gown | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | miss | past | the body | Prince nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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