Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 14
And when Huon had told his story, then the old man related how he had been sent on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, because he had slain a knight in a tourney, and how on his way home he had been taken prisoner by Saracens and carried to Babylon, from which place he had escaped after two years. "
Who acts: Huon, old man, man, Saracens · What happens: tell, relate, send, slay, take, carry · To what, where: story, man, Jerusalem, pilgrimage, knight, tourney · Speech: someone speaks here
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, old man, man, Saracens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 told | mark |
| 3 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 related | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 related | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 related | nsubj |
| 13 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 sent | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 sent | aux:pass |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 related | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 pilgrimage | case |
| 20 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Jerusalem | case |
| 22 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 slain | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 slain | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 slain | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 slain | aux |
| 27 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 sent | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 knight | det |
| 29 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 slain | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 tourney | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tourney | det |
| 32 | tourney | tourney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knight | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 taken | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 taken | cc |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 taken | advmod |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 way | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 way | nmod:poss |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 taken | obl |
| 39 | home | home | ADV | _ | 38 way | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 taken | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 taken | aux |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 taken | aux:pass |
| 43 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 related | conj |
| 44 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 taken | xcomp |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 Saracens | case |
| 46 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 taken | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 carried | cc |
| 48 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 taken | conj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 Babylon | case |
| 50 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 carried | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 place | punct |
| 52 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 place | case |
| 53 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 54 place | det |
| 54 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 carried | advcl |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 escaped | nsubj |
| 56 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 escaped | aux |
| 57 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 54 place | acl:relcl |
| 58 | after | after | ADP | _ | 60 years | case |
| 59 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 60 years | nummod |
| 60 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 escaped | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 62 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Huon | man's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | relate | past | the old man | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send | past · perfect · passive | man | Jerusalem | pilgrimage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to jerusalem=Destination | |||
| 4 | slay | past · perfect | man | a knight | a tourney | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | |||
| 5 | take | past · perfect · passive | Saracens | man | man's way | prisoner xcomp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on way=Destination | ||
| 6 | carry | past | Saracens not said here | Babylon | which place advcl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to babylon=Destination | |||
| 7 | escape | past · perfect | man | which place not said here | year | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Initial_Location |
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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