Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 51
Then Huon, lighting from his horse, searched for Gerard's wound, and finding that it was of less account than he had thought, bound it up with a strip of his shirt.
Who acts: Huon, steel, Prince, finding, Gerard · What happens: light, search, find, be, think, bound up · To what, where: steel · 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 (Huon, steel, Prince, finding), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Huon | advmod |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 searched | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighting | punct |
| 4 | lighting | light | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Huon | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lighting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Huon | punct |
| 9 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 wound | case |
| 11 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wound | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Gerard | case |
| 13 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 searched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 finding | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 finding | cc |
| 16 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 bound | csubj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 account | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 account | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 account | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 account | case |
| 21 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 account | amod |
| 22 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finding | ccomp |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 thought | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thought | aux |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 bound | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 28 | bound | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 searched | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bound | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 bound | compound:prt |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 strip | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 strip | det |
| 33 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bound | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 shirt | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 36 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 strip | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | gerund | Huon not said here | from Prince's horse | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from horse=Material | ||||
| 2 | search | past | Huon | for Gerard's wound | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for wound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | steel | of less account | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past · perfect | Prince | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bound up | infinitive | finding | steel | with a strip of Prince's shirt | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | |||
| 7 | wound | Gerard | nom wound «state transitive»: 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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