Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 2
At the gate they met a man with a bow in his hand, who had been hunting in the wood.
Who acts: Huon, hand · What happens: meet, hunt · To what, where: man, gate, wood
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, hand), 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 | _ | 3 gate | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gate | det |
| 3 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 bow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bow | det |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hunting | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hunting | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hunting | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 hunting | aux |
| 18 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hand | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Huon | a man | the gate | with a bow; in man's hand | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with bow=Instrument | ||
| 2 | hunt | past · perfect · progressive | man's hand | the wood | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=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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