Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 9
Now there is the Duchy of Bordeaux, whose Princes, Huon and Gerard, have not yet taken the oath to you.
Who acts: Duchy · What happens: be, not take · To what, where: oath, you
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 (Duchy), 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 | 19 taken | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Now | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Duchy | det |
| 5 | Duchy | Duchy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bordeaux | case |
| 7 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Duchy | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Princes | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 Princes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Duchy | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Huon | punct |
| 12 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Princes | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Gerard | cc |
| 14 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Huon | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 taken | advmod |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 taken | advmod |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 oath | det |
| 21 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 oath | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Duchy of Bordeaux and the Duchy of Bordeaux and the Duchy's Princes's Princes | now property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take | present · perfect | the oath | you | yet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oath=Theme to you=Destination |
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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