Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 40
Oberon heard these words, and cried, "Sir, you do me wrong; I am no devil, nor of an ill nature, and I entreat you that you speak with me."
Who acts: Oberon, you, Huon · What happens: hear, cry, do, be, entreat, speak · To what, where: words, Sir, Huon, devil, you · 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, you, 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 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sir | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sir | punct |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | iobj |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 do | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 devil | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 devil | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 devil | cop |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 devil | det |
| 20 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 nature | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 nature | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 nature | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 nature | det |
| 25 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nature | amod |
| 26 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 devil | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 entreat | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 entreat | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 entreat | nsubj |
| 30 | entreat | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | parataxis |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 entreat | obj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 speak | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 speak | nsubj |
| 34 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 entreat | advcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 speak | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Oberon | this words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Oberon not said here | Sir | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | Huon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Huon | no devil | of a ill nature | tree rules | |||
| 5 | entreat in a quote | present | Huon | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | you | with Huon | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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