Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 15
But," said he, "I have not been able to return home, but have dwelt in this place ever since."
Who acts: man, I · What happens: say, not be, return, dwell · To what, where: place · 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 (man, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 able | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 able | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 return | mark |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 return | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dwelt | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 dwelt | cc |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 dwelt | aux |
| 19 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dwelt | obl |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 since | advmod |
| 24 | since | since | ADV | _ | 19 dwelt | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present · perfect | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | I not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dwell | present · perfect | man not said here | this place | ever | since property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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