Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 26
At noon they rested awhile under an oak, and as they rested, Oberon came by, very richly clad in a garment garnished with precious stones, and holding in his hand a very precious bow.
Who acts: Gerames, Oberon · What happens: rest, come by, clad, garnish, hold · To what, where: oak, precious bow, garment, hand
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 (Gerames, Oberon), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 noon | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rested | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rested | nsubj |
| 4 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 4 rested | advmod |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 oak | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 oak | det |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rested | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 rested | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rested | nsubj |
| 13 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rested | punct |
| 15 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rested | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clad | punct |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 clad | advmod |
| 20 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 21 clad | advmod |
| 21 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rested | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 garment | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 garment | det |
| 24 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clad | obl |
| 25 | garnished | garnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 garment | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 stones | case |
| 27 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stones | amod |
| 28 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 garnished | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bow | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bow | cc |
| 31 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 bow | csubj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hand | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 hand | nmod:poss |
| 34 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 holding | obl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bow | det |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 precious | advmod |
| 37 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bow | amod |
| 38 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clad | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | Gerames = gerame | a oak | noon | awhile property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under oak=Location | ||
| 2 | rest | past | Gerames = gerame | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come by | past | Oberon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | clad | participle | Gerames = gerame not said here | a precious bow | a garment | richly property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | garnish | participle | a garment not said here | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hold | gerund | Oberon's hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=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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