Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 23
This counsel did not please Huon, who said, "If I can gain so much time by only keeping my tongue from speech, I will surely do so." "
Who acts: counsel, Huon · What happens: not please, say, gain, keep, do · To what, where: tongue, speech · 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 (counsel, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 counsel | det |
| 2 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 please | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 please | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 please | advmod |
| 5 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 please | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gain | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 gain | punct |
| 12 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 gain | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gain | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 gain | aux |
| 15 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gain | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 keeping | mark |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 keeping | advmod |
| 21 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 gain | advcl |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keeping | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 speech | case |
| 25 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keeping | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 29 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 30 do | advmod |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 please | parataxis |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 do | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not please | past · do-support | this counsel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Huon | who nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | gain a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | Huon | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | gerund | Huon not said here | my tongue | speech | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer tongue=Beneficiary from speech=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | future | Huon | surely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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