Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 34
Sir," answered Huon, "I am bound on a journey to the Red Sea; these poor folk I have thus entertained that they may pray for me that I may come back safely." "
Who acts: Sir, Huon, I · What happens: answer, bind, entertain, pray, come back · To what, where: Huon, I, journey, poor folk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sir, Huon, I), 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 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sir | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sir | punct |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bound | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bound | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bound | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bound | aux:pass |
| 10 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bound | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sea | det |
| 16 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sea | compound |
| 17 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 journey | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 entertained | punct |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 folk | det |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 folk | amod |
| 21 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entertained | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 entertained | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 entertained | aux |
| 24 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 25 entertained | advmod |
| 25 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 pray | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pray | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 pray | aux |
| 29 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 entertained | advcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 pray | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 come | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 pray | advcl |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 37 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 entertained | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 entertained | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Sir | Huon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind | present · passive | I | a journey to the Red Sea | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | entertain | present · perfect · passive | this poor folk | I nsubj; thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | pray | may | Huon | for me | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come back | may | I | safely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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