Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 13
So Huon and Garyn tied their horses to trees, and sat down and talked with the old man.
Who acts: Huon · What happens: tie, sit down, talk · To what, where: horses
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 tied | advmod |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Garyn | cc |
| 4 | Garyn | Garyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Huon | conj |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tied | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tied | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 talked | cc |
| 15 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 sat | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | Huon and Garyn | France's horses | to trees | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | Huon and Garyn not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk | participle | Huon and Garyn not said here | with the old man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-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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