Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 18
The old man answered, "There are two roads to Babylon, one of forty days' journey and one of fifteen only.
Who acts: old man, two roads, forty days · What happens: answer, be, journey · 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 (old man, two roads, forty days), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 are | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 are | punct |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 roads | nummod |
| 10 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Babylon | case |
| 12 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 roads | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 roads | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 journey | case |
| 16 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 days | case |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 one | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fifteen | case |
| 23 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the old man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | two roads to Babylon | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | journey in a quote | forty days | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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