Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 6
"I am journeying to Babylon," said Huon, "and would fain tarry a night in the city, for I and my company are weary." "
Who acts: Huon · What happens: journey, say, fain, be · To what, where: Babylon, city · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 journeying | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 journeying | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 journeying | aux |
| 4 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Babylon | case |
| 6 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 journeying | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 journeying | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 journeying | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fain | cc |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fain | aux |
| 15 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fain | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fain | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 weary | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 weary | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 weary | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 company | cc |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 company | nmod:poss |
| 27 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 I | conj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 weary | cop |
| 29 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fain | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 weary | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 weary | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey in a quote | present · progressive | Huon | Babylon | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to babylon=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Huon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fain in a quote | would | Huon not said here | the city | night | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Huon | weary property | tree rules |
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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