Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 38
And while he spake, they saw Oberon on the other side of a bridge by which they must pass.
Who acts: Oberon, Gerames · What happens: speak, see, pass · To what, where: Oberon, other side · 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 (Oberon, Gerames), 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 | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 spake | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spake | nsubj |
| 4 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spake | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bridge | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bridge | det |
| 15 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 pass | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pass | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 pass | aux |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | Oberon | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | Gerames = gerame | Oberon | the other side of a bridge | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oberon=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | pass | must | Gerames = gerame | by a bridge | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by which=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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