Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 53
So the two went forward on their way to Paris, for Huon would make complaint to the King that, having a safe conduct, he had been so foully assailed.
Who acts: two, Huon · What happens: go, make, have, assail · To what, where: way, complaint, safe conduct, Prince
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 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Paris | case |
| 10 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 13 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | parataxis |
| 16 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 make | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 having | punct |
| 22 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 make | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 conduct | det |
| 24 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 conduct | amod |
| 25 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 having | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 assailed | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 assailed | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 assailed | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 assailed | aux:pass |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 assailed | advmod |
| 31 | foully | foully | ADV | _ | 32 assailed | advmod |
| 32 | assailed | assail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the two | Huon's way to Paris | forward property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | make | would | Huon | complaint | to the King; that obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset complaint=Beneficiary that=Product | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | Huon not said here | a safe conduct | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient | ||||
| 4 | assail | past · perfect · passive | Prince | foully property | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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